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Why do gospel contradictions matter?
#61
RE: Why do gospel contradictions matter?
(March 1, 2015 at 1:20 pm)Drich Wrote: Here are a few answers to digest.

http://www.tektonics.org/lp/merrit01.php

Or if you like you can pick say, 5 and we can go over them.

I did a search on that sight for "god's magic Foo-Foo dust" and got no hits. How can it explain the bible without explaining the MAGIC WOO???
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#62
RE: Why do gospel contradictions matter?
Tektonics is J P Holding's site and he is an even dumber fuck than you, drippy. Except, he makes a lot of money by telling shitheads like you what you want to hear. In that, he is far more successful than you.
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#63
RE: Why do gospel contradictions matter?
(March 1, 2015 at 1:20 pm)Drich Wrote:
(March 1, 2015 at 12:20 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Here are few pages of contradictions to chew on:

http://infidels.org/library/modern/paul_...tions.html

Here are a few answers to digest.

http://www.tektonics.org/lp/merrit01.php

Or if you like you can pick say, 5 and we can go over them.

(March 1, 2015 at 1:23 pm)Drich Wrote:
(March 1, 2015 at 12:26 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: A few more here:
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/contra/by_name.html

ROFLOL
Yeah, I think they had 'a skeptics annotated bible Answered' a week after the sab came out.
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It's good of you to acknowledge the incoherence of your holy book.

Looking forward to you taking the next step and beginning to ask questions.

Following that, you might even grow a pair and start looking for answers.

Okay, okay, baby steps.

(March 1, 2015 at 4:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Tektonics is J P Holding's site and he is an even dumber fuck than you, drippy. Except, he makes a lot of money by telling shitheads like you what you want to hear. In that, he is far more successful than you.

I heard that Stevie Wonder blinded himself after reading a Drich post.

Just sayin'.

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#64
RE: Why do gospel contradictions matter?
Should have gone and beaten the shit out of drippy. Would have been more useful!
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#65
RE: Why do gospel contradictions matter?
(March 1, 2015 at 6:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Should have gone and beaten the shit out of drippy. Would have been more useful!

Nah, he's a speedbag, designed to take punches, and only useful for training on the absolute basics.

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#66
RE: Why do gospel contradictions matter?
(March 1, 2015 at 3:16 pm)Jenny A Wrote:
(March 1, 2015 at 1:20 pm)Drich Wrote: Here are a few answers to digest.

http://www.tektonics.org/lp/merrit01.php

Or if you like you can pick say, 5 and we can go over them.

Explanations for why there are contradictions, do not cause those contradictions to cease to exist. And there are very good explanations for why there are contradictions: muddled accounts passed down through multiple story tellers; theologically driven changes and additions; made up material; language barriers between the story tellers; and so on.

The explanations attempting to explain that there are no contradictions tend to be more complex and unbelievable than the contradictions themselves.

Your citation is to a mixture of the two.

To answer a contradiction does indeed eliminate the contradiction.

In 90% of all supposed of biblical contradiction perception is the cause. Grant a more diverse understanding of the subject and the contradiction goes away. In the other 10% of supposed contradictions, simple education and a understanding of how translation works eliminates said contradiction.
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#67
RE: Why do gospel contradictions matter?
(March 1, 2015 at 1:23 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:You got Tacitus relaying Christus the founder of the Chrsitian faith being crucified by Pontius Pilate, "great multitides" being convicted of being Christian and murdered for not relinquishing their faith. Opponents of Christianity, not denying Christ or his miracles, but rather attributing them to the works of demons, or magic tricks.

Tacitus wrote "Chrestianos," dummy, if he wrote anything.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_...of_MII.png


This change to "christianos" was made by an unknown 11th century scribe who probably thought he was improving the spelling.

Try again.

Are you trying to make an argument with that? What is the affect of this supposed argument?
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#68
RE: Why do gospel contradictions matter?
That the word in Tacitus meaning "the good" - Chrestianos - has since been altered to Christianos - "the Christians", as this UV imaging of the original manuscript revealed:

[Image: chrestos.jpg]

If Tacitus had intended to use that word, surely he would have done so. There should have been no need and certainly no excuse to forge evidence.
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#69
RE: Why do gospel contradictions matter?
Is it just me that finds these forgeries absolutely hilarious?
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#70
RE: Why do gospel contradictions matter?
(February 27, 2015 at 12:12 pm)YGninja Wrote: Imagine you are a policeman attending the aftermath of a supposed armed robbery of a shop. If all of the cashiers claimed the masked man entered the building at precisely 20:47, would you be more or less suspicious about their story than if they had given slightly varying times? "10 to 9", "about quarter to 9", "just before closing time at 9"...??
The differences are natural and demonstrate that there wasn't a conspiracy to invent the entire story.

The buy-bull "eye-witness" testimonies are more like this.
Witness 1: The robber came in about a quarter to nine, just before we closed last night.
Witness 2: Bullshit, it happened at 9:15, just after we opened yesterday.
Witness 3: Guys, it happened sometime last week.
Witness 4: We got robbed? Oh yeah, but that was a month ago.

Besides, even if you actually had first hand accounts, so the fuck what. Eye-witness testimony alone is worthless. Despite Wiggy's claim, no-one gets convicted on eye-witness testimony alone. If that's all the DA has, he won't even take it to trial.
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