(August 15, 2010 at 1:28 pm)chatpilot Wrote: "If we want to go with reliability then the four gospels are much more reliable."
This has got to be the dumbest comment ever posted on these forums, seriously. John is not even considered as a biography of Christ because it mostly focuses on the spiritual aspects of Christianity. The synoptic gospels were written by anonymous authors and were not given the names that are attached to them today till at least the middle of the second century. Mark being the oldest of the three was not written till about 70 A.D. some 40 years after the alleged death of Christ, and none of the the gospels are first hand accounts of the story of Christ. Not to mention that none, zero, zilch of the original documents are extant today what we have are copies of copies of copies. All these works have been written and reworked so many times both in editing and translations that I bet they are nothing like the original documents. So much for reliability.
"I'm actually going to see a Biblical scholar on the historicity of Jesus on Thursday. Do you have any short questions you would like to ask and I will post them on here."
That's like asking the pizza maker if eating pizza everyday is healthy?
Explain please how you know that the copies we have today are not like the originals. You have no idea what the originals had to say, you do not have any idea whether or not the originals were signed by the very writters they are attributed to. So how is it you can make such a statement without the original documents. Your opinion is bias by your own non-belief.
Would you go to a Bibical scholar to find proof against the existence of Christ, then why would you expect a christian to go to a nonbeliever for evidence that Christ exists. So many times nonbelivers criticize believers about the source of their material. Yet when Min suggest that we (christians) read Lost Christianites (which I did) and other atheistic biased books you believe that is the only relative material. Chat pilot you make very little sense about many things.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
