(April 26, 2010 at 4:29 pm)Thor Wrote:(April 26, 2010 at 4:17 pm)True Christian Wrote: the new Testament has a message of love and peace and the Gospels depict a believable story.
"A believable story"?
A virgin birth.
A star that points the way for people to find this magical babe.
A man who walks on water, heals people with a touch of his hand and feeds thousands with a basket of fish.
A man who rises up after being dead for three days and ascends bodily up to heaven after an angel pushes away the rock covering his tomb.
Yeah.... all this stuff sure is "believable"....
In the words of H. L. Mencken:
Quote:There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus rose from the dead or he didn't. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if he did not, then it is sheer nonsense. I defy any genuine scientist to say that he believes in the Resurrection, or indeed in any other cardinal dogma of the Christian system.
