RE: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
May 24, 2015 at 11:29 am
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2015 at 11:36 am by Randy Carson.)
(May 24, 2015 at 11:17 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: If you replayed the world again 1+1 would still equal 2. You could still make bronze by heating copper and tin and mountains will be pushed up by plate tectonics but what you wouldn't get is the history repeating.
And your god boy is just a blip of history not a universal truth and much as you try to deny it the fact that no-one but a small group of desert sheep farmers thought anything of it is a good reason to reject it as universal truth.
How's that small group of desert sheep farmers looking now, deadbeat? Not so small any more, is it?
If Jesus is God, then that is universally true regardless of whether rainforest tribes know it or not.
(May 24, 2015 at 11:17 am)IATIA Wrote:(May 24, 2015 at 11:00 am)Randy Carson Wrote: The double-standard is that atheists are allowed to play "what if" games but Christians are not, apparently.
"What ifs" based on natural observable conditions. The "rocket-scientists", as you say, did not come up with any 'magical' conclusions.
What if I said that John Lennon was not killed by Mark David Chapman.
Instead, he was whisked away by aliens at the last second and Chapman shot a stand-in.
Lennon is actually working on a new album and playing to an adoring public on another planet. He's also glad to be free from Yoko at last.
It's not very likely, but it IS possible...based on what we know of Yoko.
