The Utter Irrelevance of the New Testament

[abaris]

Thank you for sealing off another rabbit trail. I appreciate that very much.

You see, many people argue that the authors of the NT made the whole thing up; IOW, they knew it was a lie, but they conspired to tell it anyway.

Now, we can go forward with the idea that the authors genuinely BELIEVED what they proclaimed...even if they were idiots. 

At least they were HONEST idiots.

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That's not the point. The authors weren't around for the events in question. They took oral traditions and compiled them into manuscripts. Generations after something may have happened. People didn't live that long back then. So we can at least speak of 2 or 3 generations of telling and retelling until someone decided to pen it. And even with the best intentions, they will have added their own understanding of what they heard.