(January 31, 2015 at 10:17 pm)SteveII Wrote: So with a nickname like "Faith's Nightmare" you are going to say:
1. There is no evidence and a good parallel is spiderman
2. I am avoiding your question about how to explain what we do know to be true--the existence of the 27 books, that are not evidence, by saying you don't know why they were written even though they all individually say why they were written.
3. Man creates religion for the sole purpose to hold sway...what? Talk about assertions.
4. and finally, you are going to part with the majority of SECULAR scholars who think that Jesus actually existed and the actual events of his baptism and death by crucifixion are even likely.
1. All you have to do is provide the evidence for your claim. After all, you are not going to read a spider-man comic and immediately assume, make the claim, that spider-man is real based on the comic and the fictional character witnesses in the comic who can vouch for spider-man's existence, are you?
2. An existence of a book is not evidence that what is contained within is veritably true. Furthermore, the four gospels are an account of one man's life. The authors do not inject side notes explaining their reasoning for writing what they did. Man read the accounts and immediately assumed that the claims within must be true.
3. The history and evolution of religion shows that its power over the masses has always been its goal. The creation of new religions we witness to this day prove this; Mormonism and Scientology, the goal being to recruit gullible adherents in order to control what they think and believe.
4. There are plenty of credible, unbiased sources indicating that Jesus was most likely never a real person.
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