RE: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
May 23, 2015 at 7:58 pm
(This post was last modified: May 23, 2015 at 8:00 pm by Mudhammam.)
Quote:On which account it appears to me that all men who are not utterly uneducated would choose to be mutilated and to be come blind, rather than to see what is not fitting to be seen, to become deaf rather than to hear pernicious discourses, and to have their tongues cut out if that were the only way to prevent their speaking things, which ought not to be spoken.- Philo of Alexandria (25 BC - 50 AD)
Quote: If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.- words attributed to Jesus by supposed eyewitness "Matthew" in late first century
It's too bad that when God allegedly came to earth he couldn't spend more time dispensing original ideas instead of restating what many others already were (and more eloquently).
