(August 8, 2014 at 10:35 pm)Undeceived Wrote: At this point they are only apparent discrepancies. Any so-called "discrepancy" you find has a Bible scholar's explanation why it is not a discrepancy, but merely a misunderstanding of culture/literature/person ect. The difference between you and I is I believe the scholars. And more importantly, I believe the evidence (scriptural context, historical context, archaeology, ect) that the scholars cite.Seriously?
Have you bothered to read any part of the first four pages of this thread before you started posting?
I have painstakingly reviewed the timelines proposed by all four Gospels and shown them to be incompatible with each other. I have reviewed the historical landmarks against which the mythology is set. I have reviewed the apologetic ad hoc dismissals of and excuses for all the "apparent" discrepancies. I have done all this for you and your ilk who blithely and flippantly declare your bare assertion that there are no contradictions in the Gospels.
...and then you just brush past it all as if it's not even there and hit the "reset" button.
Do you have any idea how much that hurts my feelings?
How would you feel if you spent hours and hours of painstaking research and sifting through the second most boring, badly-written book in the world (the first being the Koran) only to have it be brushed aside like it's not even there.
That's time in my life that I'm not getting back. That's time I could have spent playing Skyrim or composing music. But no, I spent that time for you. Because you seemed to really need to see the facts. Because apparently no one had ever put it together for you before.
The least you can do is address any of the "apparent contradictions" I've highlighted for you. Maybe even present some of that evidence that discredits my research instead of a hand-waving appeal-to-authority "all the Bible scholars have addressed all this" and then walk away. You don't have to agree. You just have to acknowledge what I've done. All for you.
Your welcome.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
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