What the hey - this is the latest from the original thread:
You’re right! So??
I mean, JC, assuming he lived, lived 2000 years ago, and the earliest accounts of his life were written ~40 years after his death. OF COURSE they’re going to be 100% accurate!
Because, you know, they lived thousands of years ago, assuming they lived, and the people who wrote about them were writing a good while later. No matter how real the subjects, to expect 100% accuracy from the Evangelists, or Homer, or Malory, or whoever, is absurd.
Oh, if it’s YOU who has to come up with those errors, I’m good, no problem. I can come up with a very exact description that YOU can’t disprove.
I thought we were talking about the powerful, time-traveling, all-knowing entity who would judge the factual accuracy of my list. But if we’re only talking about you, I could pretend this muffin was Jesus, and you’d be SOL.
And I’m starting to think you’re a waste of carbon.
As a Christian, I’m certain that he’s God. As a rational person, I quite realize that while may well have said, for instance, that he who humbles himself will be exalted and he who exalts himself will be humbled, there’s always a decent chance that he may not have said that particular thing.
But as long as the essence of the Gospel story is right, that’s what matters, rather than whether I can pick out six or seven facts that identify Jesus and only Jesus, that all happened.
I mean, who are you to say what should determine, for me, whether my belief in Jesus is on a sound footing? I have my reasons for believing; you have your reasons for not believing. Oddly enough, they’re not the same, and we’re not even using the same standards.