This has got to be one of the most stupid form of argument/reasoning I've ever encounter. Of course, it's targeted towards a specific group of people...non-thinking Christians...b ut even so, at least a few Christians would have to be thinking, "What kind of drug is this Craig guy on?"
First of all, there are literally thousands of Jesus figures 2000 years ago who could raised people from the dead and countless more throughout history. Are they all true? Or is only Jesus of Nazareth #3 the only true one?
Oh you say since there was something written about Jesus and the other Jesus's didn't get anything written about them, it must be true like Dr. Idiot said. Okay, for arguments sake, let's just say there was really a Jesus as in the Bible because it was written about it. But Jesus raised someone up from the dead and Jesus was God? And the evidence is because those people from 2000 years ago saw it?
Today, we are living in the most rational (I would hope so), most global, and most educated time in history...and with the Iraq war only about 7 years, millions of Americans are still convinced Iraq was behind 9-11. And this is after the fact that even the same American leaders who ordered the bombing of Iraq later say there is no evidence that Iraq was behind it nor any evidence that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction. Yes, this is 7 fuccking years, we have videos, confessions and everything and with the whole world watching, yet, millions of Americans still believe otherwise. Now in the Jesus case, it's 2000 years ago and he was with his fans who wanted so desperately to believe in the miraculous. Of course 100-200 years from now (as in the case when many of the New Testament were written) when patriotic American historians decided to write a book about the Iraq war, they could say anything they please. They could choose to totally omitted as if it never happened. Or if it did happened it's because the Iraqis were threatening the United States, Saddam Hussein was going to take over the world if the U.S. didn't take pre-emptive strike, etc. Of course, in this case, the EVENT did take place, but everything else is all lies. And please, no more of those, "But can you prove that Jesus didn't perform those miracles and that he wasn't God? No I can't prove that Jesus didn't perform those miracles and that he wasn't God and I also can't prove that Jesus was a homosexual either.
Okay, to make it more interesting, I'm just going to give loonies such as Dr. Craig and people like Gracified the benefit of the doubt and say those New Testsment writers were right on the money and what they were writing were all facts. Now what about those people who wrote the Gnostic gospels, such as the Gospel of Thomas? Are those writers and those writings about Jesus just IRRELEVENT as Dr. Craig so fondly love to say? And if those Gnostic gospels are irrelevant, why are they so?
Topic: Is the bible Reliable through history? (Read 495 times)