(March 28, 2012 at 3:03 am)Godschild Wrote:FallentoReason Wrote:Maybe it's my engineering discipline here, but you can't logically assume you're being guided by God if the middle-man, Jesus, never existed. You want the NT to be the link to God and vice versa but without Jesus the NT doesn't have a foothold on reality at all. There's a huge hole that the hearsay of the gospels try to fill in. It's like trying to cross a bridge that has a massive gap in the middle. You can't get from one side to the other. The NT and the idea of God just aren't connected in any way, shape or form.
Jesus going to the cross is the bridge that fills that gap. The OT is a witness to the NT and the message it brings, the disciples used the OT to show the truth of Christ to those they witnessed to and taught. Jesus himself referred to the OT on many occasions.
Yes it all works so beautifully. Now the only way to convert those stubborn ones is to show them the secular proof that scripture is historically accurate. The question is, do you have the courage to find out the truths about the scriptures you read almost daily?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
