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To: RoosterRedux

To quote Paine again this is what I mean about the Bible being hearsay.

“When also I am told that a woman called the Virgin Mary, said, or gave out, that she was with child without any cohabitation with a man, and that her betrothed husband, Joseph, said that an angel told him so, I have a right to believe them or not; such a circumstance required a much stronger evidence than their bare word for it; but we have not even this — for neither Joseph nor Mary wrote any such matter themselves; it is only reported by others that they said so — it is hearsay upon hearsay, and I do not choose to rest my belief upon such evidence.”

None of the Gospels where written by actual witnesses to the events but they relied on hand me down stories so it is hearsay upon hearsay.

Going to the Old Testament biblical scholars have determined that much of it was written 700 years after the alleged facts.

How can a person present something as being fact that they have no direct knowledge of?

There were many contemporary accounts of the Revolutionary war. None for the events of the life of Jesus.


26 posted on 08/23/2019 9:14:36 AM PDT by Okieshooter
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To: Okieshooter
There were many contemporary accounts of the Revolutionary war. None for the events of the life of Jesus.

Wait until Winston and the rest of his crew at The Ministry of Truth get done.

The RW will vanish like the Holocaust is doing.

35 posted on 08/23/2019 2:21:17 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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