RE: The written records as evidence
November 12, 2013 at 7:22 am
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2013 at 7:23 am by Ben Davis.)
Yeah, I'm going to back LastPoet and paraphrase Hitchens on this one:
I'll grant you the historicity of the bible, the existence of Jesus but that doesn't demonstrate that any of the supernatural claims, made within its pages or about his life, actually happened or are even possible. Take Jesus; we can assume that Mary had a virgin birth, we can assume that there was no male intervention whatsoever in his siring however that doesn't show that his paternity was divine or by extension, that any of his moral teachings were correct.
I'll grant you the historicity of the bible, the existence of Jesus but that doesn't demonstrate that any of the supernatural claims, made within its pages or about his life, actually happened or are even possible. Take Jesus; we can assume that Mary had a virgin birth, we can assume that there was no male intervention whatsoever in his siring however that doesn't show that his paternity was divine or by extension, that any of his moral teachings were correct.
Sum ergo sum
