A lot of Atheist deconverted by reading the Bible.
Jesus’ most devout first century followers never owned a Bible, never read a Bible...because there was no Bible to be had or read. But these men and women turned the world upside down; they’re the reason that people worship Jesus today; and they never held a Bible because there was no Bible until the fourth century.
Not really, Christianity most likely would have remained a small cult had it not been for Paul's promotional work and Constantine adopting Christianity as his state religion.
Yes really. “These men and women” that I mentioned above actually saw Jesus die, and later they saw Him alive. They witnessed the very event upon which Christianity is founded. And ‘that’ event is what sparked the movement (the Church) that brought us the Bible.
We don't have eyewitnesses telling us what they saw. What we have is anonymous authors giving their accounts on the basis of hearsay decades after the described events with copying a high degree of copying, Mark as the earlier version, etc
What?
The Gospels are anonymous copies of copies of copies of copies of copies, with our earliest version put to parchment centuries later?
Really?
Say it isn't so!!
I wonder if that's why Antlers doesn't want to discuss sources, especially after making such a big deal about no {mostly) bibles existing until 400 years after the alleged events?
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
