(July 3, 2015 at 2:01 am)robvalue Wrote: Now all we get are "personal experiences" which are indistinguishable from hallucinations.
Reading Richard Carriers book, he says that in the period that the NT was written, hallucinations were seen as far more trustworthy than regular experiences. So if person A claimed to have a halucination about Jesus, this was much more likely to be believed to be real, than a so called real experience. The most respected men were ones that hallucinated more.
It's a bit like nowadays believing someone who is high on LSD or a schizophrenic versus someone that isn't.
Having said that, the bible really has nothing to do with I'm an Atheist. The fact that it's totally ridiculous provides amusement and bewilderment that anyone would take it seriously, but this is a side matter.
