RE: Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels
March 22, 2014 at 1:14 pm
(This post was last modified: March 22, 2014 at 1:15 pm by Mudhammam.)
(March 22, 2014 at 5:10 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(March 22, 2014 at 4:16 am)Esquilax Wrote: The problem you'll face there is that christian apologetics is the enemy of language, and as deeply wrong as "red and purple are the same color," sounds to you, it'll sound perfectly fine to an apologist or those willing to accept the word of one, simply because to them, words mean whatever they need to in order to preserve the bible.
This is just another one of those things that's only convincing if you let your views be shaped by the evidence, rather than shaping the evidence to fit your views.
And that works both ways of course.
No one has the upper hand on these questions, and nothing annoys me more that people on either side making unfounded claims of superiority.
I guess the sensible thing would be take the Gospels at face value instead of jumping through loops to say, "You see, when you combine ALL the Gospels together, we actually find that Jesus was wearing red AND purple...
"And his last words on the cross were actually a lot longer winded than any single Gospel portrays...
"And at his birth, Joseph took the holy family from Nazareth to Bethlehem to Jerusalem, then back to Bethlehem, followed by Egypt to tour the pyramids, and FINALLY only then did they returned home to Nazareth... See, no contradictions! They just each record the stories in fragmentary pieces that fit together like a puzzle! Same thing with the contradictory visits of the women to Jesus' tomb, of course, and everything else in the Bible that refutes itself."
