(February 5, 2015 at 11:28 am)SteveII Wrote: I don't care if you believe the events of Jesus' life actually happened or not. But the consequences of rejecting the gospels is that a significant number of people intentionally lied. Then the question is to what end? This all goes toward the probability assessment of whether the first Christians believed in the actual key events in Jesus' life.
You...do know that people can honestly and genuinely believe something, and simply be wrong about it, right? We're not saying that early Christians were consciously spreading and dying for something that they were lying about, we're saying that they were wrong.
Can you please acknowledge at least this point?
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Thomas Jefferson