(March 15, 2015 at 11:24 pm)Lek Wrote:(March 15, 2015 at 10:48 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: I don't think anyone here gives two shits about who the authors actually were.
That's the point of my question. So why would me discovering that the authors of the gospels are anonymous make me stop believing in Christ?
But we weren't talking about whether you should believe in Christ or not, dude. We were talking about whether the gospel records are eyewitness accounts, a question in which knowing the identity of the authors is a necessary condition. Without knowing who they were, there's literally no way to tell whether they were truly eyewitnesses.
Does that constitute an argument against the religion? Only kinda. See, it should definitely give you reason to pause and doubt, and in combination with everything else wrong with the gospels I'd definitely not believe a word of it, but in isolation it's just one piece of evidence.
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