AD, AD. Had a brain fart there. But everything here I agree with.
Specify. Cause if you're talking about what I think you're talkin about it may be useless to bring it up.
Luke and Mark were written after 100 AD, off the top I cant remember how it was figured but their other writings at the time had events that were happening after the 100ad mark. (Which honestly confused the hell out of me considering they would have had to been well over 100 then to write their gospels) John was at least before 115 AD based on some of things described in it that really happened. Paul could have been anywhere between 80AD and 300 AD carbon dating puts it in that time period and nothing in it can give it a specific time period.
Honestly I think Paul is the only of the 4 big gospels to write his own, the other 3 were written by followers of the claimed Authors.
Please explain this one too.
Shouldnt of really said Gospels but other writings in the new testament Exodus, Titus and Colossians (which I believe saint paul did write these two), Philemon also written by Paul, and Revalation. Those were all written before 80 AD using historical events coniciding with the time in similar non published writings.
Well yes, that was my point of brining up the writers. There are reasons things aren't in biblical cannon. Hell, John the baptist contradicted Paul and co. too.
The difference is though the contradictions in outside texts contradict it to the point anyone with common sense will say, alright this book is a lie, where as the current contradictions you can sort of go around and make them work with one another. I've posted the contradictions and asked many others about them and always get different answers but they always make them try to match, where as in outside texts its always "no sense to it aint in the bible because its a hoax" without them even knowing anything in them.
As a Christian, why in the fuck would I?
If you believe in the biblical gospels, why not read the other texts written by some of the same authors and around and sometimes before the bibles accepted ones? IMO most do not in fear of it proving the bible wrong and some people just couldnt handle that.
The idea of biblical cannon is to prevent this.
If they can change words that are inspired by god anytime they want to make it fit current times, its bullshit. Anyone can take a prophecy and later make it fit to something, they can always make stories and fool people into believing them.
But he didn't? Jesus's very existance was supposed to be an act of mercy by God on the Human race.
Please elaborate.
OT and the NT, they are completely different views, one is the unmerciful, jealous, god killing people and no one can be forgiven. The new testament tries to make it all peaceful and that anyone can be forgiven. Yet it still has alot of shit in it that is detrimental and causes people to act on behalf of god to accomplish something. That changes everything. People think the second coming will always be during their time, now we have shit that can really cause end times, and its only a matter of time before someone destroys alot of us trying to bring that second coming and fullfill the prophecy. The new testament makes it seem we dont have to be responsible for our actions, do as we please and Jesus will keep us safe as long as we accept him and ask for forgivness. Example at the store one day i was buyin gatorade, my wife said I should get the powder mix because we didnt have recycling pickup where I live now, some dude came up and told me not to worry about pollution that when god feels we need help he will come rid the Earth of our problems, I told him I'd rather do my part and save the world I have to live in just incase god does his usual and lets people die, then he tells me that god directed me to the store so that he could tell me what god has told him...... RIGHT there are millions of these people, we will all die because of them not because of black jesus.
Luke's gospel was there to demonstrate how Jesus fit the old testament's prophecies. What is there left to prove?
Luke writ the gospel so that these prophecies would seem to have come true