04-10-2006, 01:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Robin
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Originally Posted by All-American
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Originally Posted by SteelBlue
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Not to burst your bubble or anything, but ALL of the gospels were written FORTY or more years AFTER the events they allegedly describe.
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So, what does that have to do with anything I've said? And why would it burst my bubble? |
Yeah, I got one step ahead of the point.
It wasn't such a great point, but you were dropped the 180 years number like that somehow means something.The original text may have been written long before that. Rmember, the artifact was a copy of some other original text so the 180 years number has little to do with when it was first written. The best way to know that is by referencing historical events that may be referred to, and then placing the authorship some time after that.
Doing that with the book of Mark places it some forty years after the death of Jesus. I have some issues with that. Maybe you don't. Were the gospels really written as testiments of Jesus? Or were they written to set the story straight, once and for all, so that there would be one final version of a story that was getting changed around with each retelling?
Virgin birth, angels and the star were all unwitnessed events that took place more than 70 years before the gospels were written. When a man tries to sell you snake oil, you might not be able to disprove his claims, but you will generally recognize the danger by the sales tactics. |
That's why I like the Book of Mormon. It'd be a lot harder to believe the Bible without it. |
And who says you are anything but 'reasonable' in your faith? You are a spiritual Niels Bohr. |
I'd rather be a spiritual Neils Bohr than a rhetorical Werner Heisenberg.
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