(October 8, 2021 at 12:45 pm)ayost Wrote: This is pure speculation. I'm not even going to respond to this.
That the gospels are "stories" is pure speculation? Their very structure, time of writing, and the fact that many different ones were written proves they were at least stories.
That Christians believe they were somehow accurate accounts of reality is the unsupportable idea. When a story includes magic, recycled myth, has an omniscient narrator, was written far after the fact, and has been told in many different ways, the burden of proof is not on the skeptic. Even my former Anglican minister called the Gospel According to John "the best fan-fiction ever written".
Why aren't you a Mormon? Their stories are attested to by actual eye witnesses.