(October 20, 2014 at 11:10 am)Vivalarevolution Wrote: You know how literature is like a window to a nation's culture. Similarly, the stories of how they comprehended god serves as an insight into the culture that jesus was born in (and how his inclusion changed all that)
But the difference between new testament and old is that there is no longer a need for writings of gods witness. Jesus served as proof to the character of god witnessed by hundreds. So authors couldn't interpret god as they wished (as they could in old testament). Here there was a definite picture which had little chance of being changed or corrupted. The letters and all just magnify the greater picture that's all.
Why are all those alleged eye witnesses anonymous? Not one wrote anything down. Hundreds of them and yet not a single one wrote anything down.
All we have are claims from Paul these eye witnesses even existed and he wasn't there himself.
How is that different than me claiming I know of 500 people who saw the Raelian spaceship land in the Oregon Cascades and the Raelian leader came out and made us all dinner?
