RE: "Gospel Quest" (or The Jesus Timeline)
August 4, 2014 at 8:28 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2014 at 8:28 pm by Simon Moon.)
(August 4, 2014 at 4:25 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:Quote:My parents are perfectly capable of telling me about events that happened 40 years ago in great detail down to the color of the carpet and who said what when.
Your parents are also perfectly capable of being completely wrong about what they think they saw, heard, felt, or thought 40 years ago.
Which is exactly the way the human mind works.
When people tell stories from long in their past, they build them out of fragments as the tell the story. It's not like the entire story is stored in one place in the brain.
There is story after story of people that heard relatives tell family stories multiple times , believe they were involved, whet they weren't.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
