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Originally posted by kang
In my mind, both of these explanations are far more reasonable than some guy being the literal son of god. That just doesn’t make sense. The almighty god can have only one son? What’s up with that?
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I'd tell you but you wouldn't believe me. Rather, I've tried to explain, but I'm obviously coming up short or you're chosing to not accept the answers that I'm giving. That's OK. I'm not going to beat you over the head, but I will try to answer the questions that you raise -- or else why are you asking?
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Jesus died for us? But wait, he’s not dead, he’s alive. “God gave is son…” But wait, god has his son. And the miracles in the bible are so full of reasonable doubt that taking them literally is absurd. The virgin birth? Come on, we know what happened there. The whole story is so illogical it boggles my mind.
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There are lots of things that appear so illogical that they boggle my mind, even if I've seen them in person! Like this for example...
But just because I don't understand it, doesn't make it false or non-existant. It just means that I don't understand it.
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How can someone possibly be accurately quoted decades after the fact? That doesn’t happen today, let alone 2,000 years ago. All of this, in my mind, makes the more reasonable, logical alternatives the obvious truth.
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Actually, the "Dead Seas Scrolls" are an excellent example. The earliest known "Old Testement" sources date back to
about 1000 AD and were used for the "Old Testement" translations of the Bibles that many of grew up with. With the discovery of the "Dead Sea Scrolls", it was learned that changes in the texts during the intervening millenium were exceedingly minor at best. I gave an example earlier.