RE: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament
May 26, 2015 at 7:52 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2015 at 7:55 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
"it could have happened" is a faaaaaaar cry from "it did", or even "it is likely". There seems to be this notion that the parts of the narrative not directly claiming magic are somehow reliable as fact, when there is no requirement of magic in fiction, and we can demonstrate easily that much fiction is decidedly mundane with regards to the claims it makes. That "Paul" even wrote letters to churches is far from certain or reliable. We certainly don't need this to be true, or even for those churches to have existed, to end up with the story as is.
Dracula could have chartered a schooner to london, chartering a schooner to london is possible. He didn't. I think that people ought to pay more attention to craft, when discussing their stories.....
Just chiming in, lol.
Dracula could have chartered a schooner to london, chartering a schooner to london is possible. He didn't. I think that people ought to pay more attention to craft, when discussing their stories.....
Just chiming in, lol.
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