Let's get back to the topic. What do you say about that void ha? I mean how come no church ever preserved records of Christ family like census and tax receipts from the government, documenting their family relations, births, property, place of residence, and taxes paid, among other things such as deeds and contracts? This would also include documents pertaining to any trials they were involved in (civil or criminal); and copies of any letters they received (which they surely would have received if they were at all involved in the church administration and mission after Jesus' death).
I mean we know churches had the means and interest in preserving letters like some Paul's letters but no Christ family - someone may think they never existed. And even those Paul letters that are preserved there would have been hundreds of letters written in the first century, both from numerous other apostles and communication between churches, in great quantity, from every decade beginning with Paul.
I mean we know churches had the means and interest in preserving letters like some Paul's letters but no Christ family - someone may think they never existed. And even those Paul letters that are preserved there would have been hundreds of letters written in the first century, both from numerous other apostles and communication between churches, in great quantity, from every decade beginning with Paul.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
