ROFTLMAO - It is a good thing if YOU lived and were wealthy back then, you would have NEVER owned slaves, because you are so CLEVR and GUD and SMARTE. Yea, right. It is nice that a mortal flesh speck in 2008 knows how the cosmos works, that he can use historical revisionism to tell what God SHOULD have done in TM world. Brought to you from the person who knew that "Barnabas" instead of Barabbas" was the one substituted for Christ and that "Ponius Pilot" instead of "Pontius Pilate"was the judge over Christ's Roman judgment (it hurts to even read your posts). But you are the person who apparently has enough Biblical and Purpose and God understanding, that you can tell God what He should be like and how He should run things. This was already covered in Bruce Almighty.
Thank you for proving my point you dumb ass twit!!!! I was responding to antoher poster who was saying when , where and what the gospel was......I used his logic to show it is flawed thinking....read before you spew shit...and as i said before...Im so SORRY i had a typo spelling ...Oh my God! I will go to confession....BTW..Bruce Almighty??? LOL...fag. waht's next: you will quote OH GOD????
what's the matter fag boy??? you have no arguments unless there is a typo???? you couldn't ignore me if you tried. funny you mention GED...you still in High School????
Let me get this strait...what your basically is saying is that " we don't know who wrote our writings but we also don't know who wrote yours"?? so that makes your argument better???? And what proof do youhave that early Christians worte to suit their own needs? You have no proof...you only have theory based upon modern men reviewing books written 2000 years ago. question though. who wrote exodus? when ? who? ( let me guess, your going to run to google)
these are your words corect? Christains take the Gospel seriousy, yet you say " the 'gospels' were nothing more than an oral tradition for at least a century after the crucifixion supposedly occurred " Bsacially you just trashed our gospels and questioned whether the crucifixion even occurred... Now. what would happen if i questioned the enslavement of the hebrews? the holocaust?.passover ? ..then im anti semetic right??? There are a lot of things about history we just don't know we all agree on that.
actually, there were many many more eye witness accounts,,, there are many more books and authors...the bible contains a select few so ...you are wrong about one eye witness 300 years later....try again. do some more google research for your next argument
Mom0/Ph0x: You just quote a bunch of dubious sources and open forums like Wikipedia claiming that various writers doubt the validity of the Gospels, etc. In doing so, you conveniently ommit the plain fact that thousands of religious scholars for centuries (by far the vast majority of those who studied the subject) have analyzed and validated the authenticity of those works. Not to mention their spiritual content that has inspired millions. OK, free speech is your right if you live here in the US or a similarly free society. Christianity, like all major religions, has been under attack since the beginning, two thousand years ago. During all this time, there have been plenty of individuals doubting it, like you are doing here on ET. Yet, at the same time, billions of people have stood by the Christian sources and teachings, and still do. Deal with that. And when you realize that these folks don't care about what you say, maybe you'll see that insulting the religious beliefs of others is a dirty, despicable, pointless thing to do. What are your own beliefs and ethnic/religious background Mom0/Ph0x? Put them up and see if others want to take a stab at denouncing them. How would that feel? Are you Jewish? Doubt it, most Jews I know are decent people and you don't look like one to me. Muslim extremist? Red-hot atheist? Were you abused in some way, perhaps at an early age? I'm sorry about that but that's not an excuse to insult others either. So, what's it, man? How do we reach you? Or you don't want to be reached, just want to have the opportunity to throw stones at other people's houses in cowardly anonymity?
JWS11, Christians say lots of things that turn out not to be true. Why should I believe you when Mom0/pH0x has cited scholarly references which can be checked and validated, whilst you only resort to no more than over defensive rhetoric laced with insult?
Some Christians are saying things that are not true, perhaps as many as non-Christians do, for sure, right? What does this have to do with anything? Many Christians tell the truth too, and many non-Christians do also. What's your point? I am not asking you to believe me, I don't need to convince you of anything. Believe what you will. Mom0 put up a few names of non-believers as if that proves something. Meanwhile you can go to any bookstore and find thousands of titles that contradict what he's saying. Do it or don't do it, I don't care. What is his main point? That Christianity is not a true religion? How can anyone with half a brain approach this type of question "objectively?" It is clear to me that that's not what he's trying to do - but to insult and shock all those who respect it as their religion. That's unacceptable to me and others on ET - if he insults us we'll point it out to him and encourage him to change course. Therefore, what I'm taking issue with is his approach, which, judging from past experience, is similar to yours. It can be summarized as "Tell me what you believe in and I will throw rocks at it and enjoy your suffering." Is that decent? Can it be fruitful? What do you believe in, stu? Anything?