RE: The Jesus Itinerary
October 31, 2013 at 1:49 am
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2013 at 2:01 am by Lion IRC.)
(October 27, 2013 at 12:34 am)DeistPaladin Wrote: … One has to either assume that the Mandaens stubbornly refused to listen to their religious leader even as he, on no uncertain terms, told them he wasn't the messiah, or the Christians were using the same tactic of assimilation that the Muslims would later use on Jesus.
No, one has to assume that DeistPaladin knows something more about John the Baptist than the Mandeans or Jesus or the early Christians. Do you?
Not all Jews believed Jesus was the Messiah. Not all Jews thought John the Baptist was the Messiah. Not all atheists are Jesus mythers. The Mandeans thought stuff that was heretical to Christianity.
So what?
Pointing this out doesn’t help your case and it doesnt affect the internal harmony of the New Testament – which is what you started out with as the basic claim.
You said;
Quote:...I'm painstakingly mapping out all of the events in the Gospels and comparing them to one another.
I want to see text versus text and mutually exclusive error/contradiction within the Gospels.
Not….text says “A” and the minority heretical Mandean sect claims “B”
(October 30, 2013 at 7:54 am)DeistPaladin Wrote:(October 30, 2013 at 3:36 am)Lion IRC Wrote: Methodological skepticism IS an agenda.No. I can't doubt that I doubt.
Answer me this. Are you skeptical of skepticISM?
See! you are so committed to skepticism that it biases you towards doubt of what you read in the bible.
Thats an "ISM" which forces you to read in disbelief.
Your point? I said you approach the Bible with your faith as a preconception. Other people have their faiths. These are all preconceptions, upheld without reason and defended against all reason.
Your point?
Your point?
Asking me "whats your point" instead of answering the point itself sounds like a stalling tactic.
