(February 21, 2015 at 10:11 am)taylor93112 Wrote: First off, I'm not a believer. But I constantly hear from fellow non believers that the gospels aren't reliable because they contain contradictions. Honestly, I don't understand why this argument is used. From my understanding, the gospels spread by word of mouth for at least 20+ years before being written down. And then mark was written down, which the others are based off of. So isn't the real reason they are unreliable due to them being circulated by conversation for over 20 years?
Please, correct me if I'm wrong. I'm happy to be educated.
(Any helpful links would be appreciated!)
Sometimes what happens is that you get certain fundamentalist Christians who take the Bible so literally as the Word of God that the Bible cannot have any errors in it.
That is why nonbelievers respond with the argument that this cannot be the case as the Bible has contradictions (pretty much errors) in it. If the Bible has errors, then the Bible cannot be God's word literally.
What you said is true as well, but good luck trying to convince these Christians that the Gospels weren't directly inspired by God through the pen of man.
