there are 4 gospels. Where there only 4 people who saw him walk on water?
Do we need anymore???
Do we have the original papyrus, copper, or clay they were written on? No, what we have are reproductions. How do we know those reproductions are accurate if we don't have the originals
Same argument I referred to earlier regarding the Dead Sea Scrolls which proved the text to be accurate. We have over 24,000 manuscripts of the New Testament alone.
Was Jesus' name Jesus or something else? Was Gospels writer's names John, Matt, Luke and Mark? Were those Hebrew names? do we have other original writings from them that are not in the bible and are not reproduced?
I’m not going to spend to much time on this, because what you want is a PHd course in Theology at the behest of my tying fingers. Here’s an excerpt from (Robert Wilson, A Scientific Investigation of the Old Testament, Chicago, Moody Press, 1959, pp. 70,71,85.)
“In 144 cases of transliteration from Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian and Moabite into Hebrew and in 40 cases of the opposite, or 184 in all,
the evidence shows that for 2300 to 3900 years the text of the
proper names in the Hebrew Bible has been
transmitted with the most minute accuracy. That the original scribes should have written them with such conformity to correct philological principles is a wonderful proof of their thorough care and scholarship; further, that the Hebrew text should have been transmitted by copyists through so many centuries is a phenomenon
unequaled in the history of literature…There are about forty of these kings living from 2000 B.C. to 400 B.C. Each appears in chronological order… with reference to kings of other countries… no stronger evidence for the substantial accuracy of the Old Testament records could possibly be imagined, than this collection of kings.
Mathematically, it is one chance in 750,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that this accuracy is mere circumstance… The proof that the copies of the original documents have been handed down with substantial correctness for more than 2000 years cannot be denied.”
The evidence is clear that the Bible has been transmitted to us in an accurate manner.
But we don;t have everyone's eyewitness accounts. Not to mention eyewitness accounts have historicallhy had a percantage of inaccuracy, just ask any police officer.
I doubt that there is a time when we have “everyone’s” eyewitness accounts to an event. But that’s irrelevant. We HAVE EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY! You keep disregarding that. It’s like you’re a broken record.
It's been commonly accepted they were written many years after Jesus's death. Look in to it.
I’m not disputing that. Remember, that does not make them false or inaccurate.
I simply stated that you do not know that they were NOT written earlier. As I stated in an earlier post, the writer could have begun witting immediately and completed at a later time. We also do not know whether they had “notes” that they wrote at the time.
By that logic then all the things Mohamand did, all his miracles etc... are true also. and so are every written fairy tale or illogical event involving witnesses.
think freak, think.
Look, I’m not going to start getting into the Koran and Mohammad too. I’m going to focus on the Bible. Which is PROVEN TO BE ACCURATE and UNCHANGED. That cannot be stated of the Koran. In addition, we have a significantly greater amount of manuscripts and supporting documents for the Bible. Which was written much closer to the times the actual events occurred.
Greek mythology involved real people and real lives, the only difference is that main stream society and religious doctrine have labeled Greek mythology as just that while it labeled the exact same thing in the bible as fact.
both are the same, both involve real people and real places.
Just like the Koran.
If what Jesus said is true, “I am the Way the Truth and the Life, and no one comes to the Father except through Me.”, and everything in the Bible continues to confirm that He did what He said, rising from the dead, miracles, etc. I don’t need to waste my time refuting what other books or myths say, when the Bible is true. Now, if it were proven to be false that would be a different story.
