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maddog · 04-02-2005, 04:15 PM

Why would Jesus need to write anything down? He told his followers he would be right back, within their lifetimes.

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Avatar · 04-02-2005, 04:29 PM

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And as such everything in it is without error.

Except that it is full of errors--as has been pointed out in numerous threads. Historical details out of order, impossible world-shaking stunts that no one else bothered to records, claims of battles and migrations where there is no evidence of said events...

Zeda · 04-02-2005, 10:46 PM

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Why would Jesus need to write anything down? He told his followers he would be right back, within their lifetimes.

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Good Point!

Jobar · 04-03-2005, 07:06 AM

Damn, Biff beat me to it. I was going to say "For the same reason Frodo Baggins didn't write Lord of the Rings."

Classical · 04-03-2005, 08:23 AM

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Except that it is full of errors--as has been pointed out in numerous threads. Historical details out of order, impossible world-shaking stunts that no one else bothered to records, claims of battles and migrations where there is no evidence of said events...

Written record was abundant at the time Jesus supposedly lived. It is absurd to even imagine that no one would write down such amazing and astonishing things like graves being opened and hordes of corpses walking the streets.

It is incredible that people don't stop and think about how ridiculous the claims in the New Testament are! No one would believe such claims today and usually only believe in past miracles from their own religion and dismiss the ones claimed by other religions.

Harry Bosch · 04-03-2005, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by maddog

Why would Jesus need to write anything down? He told his followers he would be right back, within their lifetimes.

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Damn, that is a good point!

calladus · 04-03-2005, 11:54 AM

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rather when I say that it is inspired and not dictated by God is that the process of it's writting and compilation was guided by God. And as such everything in it is without error.

Heh. God is a lousy editor

Calladus

Cynthia of Syracuse · 04-03-2005, 04:05 PM

Off to BC&H.

Columbus · 04-03-2005, 05:31 PM

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Since The Bible is inspired by God and since Jesus is God then we can say that The Bible was "written" by Jesus, it is only a matter of the method he used to do it.

I don't believe that Jesus was God. One important reason is because He left the Scripture to a bunch of humans. Who knows how much of what they wrote is accurate? It certainly hasn't resulted in the "Kingdom of Heaven", with 2000 years to work. God could do much better if He wanted to. Since the NT clearly states that Jesus will return within the lifetimes of the audience, and this isn't true, I can only surmise that whoever the authors of the NT were they were only human. And so very likely to be mistaken, especially when they start writing about things that no-one can actually know about.

Tom

show_no_mercy · 04-03-2005, 09:41 PM

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Why would Jesus need to write anything down? He told his followers he would be right back, within their lifetimes.

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Where does it say that? I'm not doubting that he meant this, but where exactly did he say it?

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