RE: Why do Christians trust the Bible?
October 20, 2014 at 12:21 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2014 at 12:23 pm by JesusHChrist.)
(October 20, 2014 at 12:10 pm)Vivalarevolution Wrote: Are you sure all those people knew how to write?They were peasants in the middle east 2000 years ago
Are you sure they didn't? Granted the literacy rate was probably less than 10%, so that leaves potentially 50 possible literate people in attendance out of Paul's claimed 500 eye witnesses. Also, bear in mind, the NT claims *thousands* saw Jesus working his magic. Now, we have potentially hundreds of literate people who could have written something, anything down. And yet, there is nothing. Not one contemporaneous word.
Why do you think second or third hand accounts, written 2000 years ago, of admittedly extraordinary claims ought to be seriously considered?
