RE: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
May 15, 2015 at 3:21 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2015 at 3:23 pm by Cyberman.)
(May 15, 2015 at 2:38 pm)robvalue Wrote: I wonder, if a christian talked to a group of 100 people who all just witnessed god coming down to earth, admitting he is evil, then disappearing again... would they believe them? Come on, 100 people! And you can actually talk to them, not just read hearsay accounts of what they said years later.
How many christians would accept this without question? My guess is: none.
Taking this point further, and accepting for the moment that the biblical authors were genuine eyewitnesses as distinct from literary constructs for example, the power of false memory is very real as this NY Times article reveals.
Now scale that up a couple of millennia and throw in countless revisions, translations and interpretations. Then talk about historical reliability.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
