Unwarranted Skepticism?
Should we believe the gospel accounts of Jesus?
Should the existence of other apocryphal writings (i.e. Gospels of Thomas, Peter, and Mary) cast any doubt on the trustworthiness of the Bible?
If we look around we'll notice a trend. People are disposed to writing religious fiction and a great many people are inexorably inclined to believe it. If we pick any religion as the truth, we are left with the incorrigible fact that billions have believed a lie. People write religious books and credulous people believe them. Fact. Just look around! (i.e. Book of Mormon)
So how should the Bible, bulging with stories of the fantastical, be viewed in light of this fact? Simple reasoning and common sense tell us to assume the Bible to be false, in line with all the other religious books and beliefs that have been held sacred over the centuries.
With this in mind, what Christian evidences could possibly trump these tenable, unequivocal facts that people write religious nonsense and credulous people continually scoop it up like ice cream?
Should the existence of other apocryphal writings (i.e. Gospels of Thomas, Peter, and Mary) cast any doubt on the trustworthiness of the Bible?
If we look around we'll notice a trend. People are disposed to writing religious fiction and a great many people are inexorably inclined to believe it. If we pick any religion as the truth, we are left with the incorrigible fact that billions have believed a lie. People write religious books and credulous people believe them. Fact. Just look around! (i.e. Book of Mormon)
So how should the Bible, bulging with stories of the fantastical, be viewed in light of this fact? Simple reasoning and common sense tell us to assume the Bible to be false, in line with all the other religious books and beliefs that have been held sacred over the centuries.
With this in mind, what Christian evidences could possibly trump these tenable, unequivocal facts that people write religious nonsense and credulous people continually scoop it up like ice cream?
posted by R.K. at 11:12 AM
3 Comments:
Even the non religous writers of the day confirm the truth about Jesus.
M.K.
The secular writers do confirm that there was a man named Jesus who was executed, but that's about it. In the same way historians would confirm of a man named Joseph Smith and his eleven eyewitnesses in regards to Mormonism.
I do think the presence of the apocrypha (which contains some pretty wacked out stuff) casts a lot of doubt on the gospels. I have to ask myself why the apocrypha was written if it wasn't true and why the gospels shouldn't also be viewed in the same vein? It seems that writing wacked out religious material was the in thing to do back then.
It's always been the thing to do, but it certainly does not mean that everything religous that's ever been written is untrue.
M.K.
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