New Testament Accuracy And Reliability.

[Theland]

https://youtu.be/rml5Cif01g4

The evidence for New Testament accuracy and reliability just keeps rolling in.

Don't you think it is worth reading?

[woofgang]

Well at least you didn't call me "Hard of thinking" PP

[naomi24]

Eddie, //(if you really want to annoy a Muslim cleric,ask him how they can be CERTAIN that the only time Satan was able to successfully impersonate Allah, was when Muhammad was fooled into writing the 'Satanic Verses' ) I have never found one who can come up with an answer.//

I very much doubt you’ve spoken to many Muslim clerics … if indeed any. The chances are that if you ask a Muslim cleric that question he’ll deny that the verses ever existed. There is no argument.

Incidentally, Vulcan is right. The bible is not believed to be simply a collection of reports, history & stories – it is believed to have been inspired by God.

[benhilton]

An interesting video , Theland .
Can the sceptics explain why the early Church Fathers and the early manuscript writers put such time and effort into writing out , copying and preserving these manuscripts if it was all about a fictitious fairytale ?

[Canary42]

/// explain why the early Church Fathers ... put such time and effort into writing out , copying and preserving these manuscripts ///

Because it gave them POWER. That's what organised religion is all about.

[naomi24]

Benhllton, //Can the sceptics explain why the early Church Fathers and the early manuscript writers put such time and effort into writing out , copying and preserving these manuscripts if it was all about a fictitious fairytale ?//

Can the believers explain why those who knew Jesus disagreed with stranger Paul (the founder of the Christian church), and the early manuscript writers, despite the time and effort they put into the task, made such glaring errors?

[Theland]

What glaring errors would they be?

You must have found something overlooked foe centuries.

[naomi24]

Theland, this isn't the best available but it will do to be going on with.

http://www.skeptically.org/bible/id6.html

//You must have found something overlooked foe centuries.//

I’ve read a lot that’s been ignored for centuries – and continues to be ignored.

[Theland]

A bit selective biased and hysterical. Not really serious are you?

[Theland]

Daniel B Wallace must have missed that lot.
And the atheist Bart Erhman.

[Zacs-Master]

That Matthew and Luke, eh! Tut. What a pair of cards.

[naomi24]

Crikey! How quickly you read and checked those examples! All 194 of them! Rather a lot to be considered selective, Theland. Too difficult?

[Theland]

If you stop taking this rubbish at face value, and instead CONSIDER a plausible explanation, you could do your own research regarding problematic bible passages and apparent contradictions.
Try it.

[naomi24]

No Theland, Daniel B Wallace ignores them as you do.

[naomi24]

Theland, I've done my own research ... years of it. Your 'plausible' explanations amount to disingenuous apologetics.

[Zacs-Master]

They amount to a maggot on a hook. And your lip gets pierced every time, N.

[Theland]

Are you wasting your life?

I don't believe in aliens so have not spent years researching them.

You get it?

[naomi24]

Zacs. Been doing it for years.... great fun ......but my lip is fine. Theland's on the other hand, suffers. He's the fish who never manages to wriggle off the hook.

[naomi24]

Theland, you haven't spent years researching the bible ....

Try it.

[Theland]

Thirty as a Christian, coming and going, dealing as best I could with life.
No I don't claim to be an academic theologian, but hey, I get by without fussing.
Prayer is a wonderful gift.
More info through experience than constantly criticising.
Great fun?
More serious than that I believe.

[Zacs-Master]

Theland doesn’t want to wriggle off the hook. He’s not on one. He’s holding the rod my dear. Time you realised and stopped swimming in his pool waiting for the bait.