07-11-2006, 10:45 PM
Quote:Bismillah
Sorry, I do understand.
Christians have taken an opinion that Jesus is God and they work backwards from that hypothesis looking for evidence to support this view in scripture. How can you interpret the old Testament in a manner in which Jews never understood it?
A council was held hundreds of years later deciding which scripture would be acceptable out of the many gospels available. Here we have MEN choosing what will be their revelation and MEN defing who God is.
A new book has been published by a man who studies ancient scripture called "Misquoting Jesus." There are points that he raises also that would be interesting to see resolved. In fact, this man was a christian at the beginning of his scholarship only trying to prove the voracity of the gospels but actually resulted in his agnosticism. Has there been any comment from the christian community regarding this book?
So in conclusion, evidence from your scripture will not be acceptable to me. Gleening from other threads, evidence from my scripture will not be acceptable to you as evidence.
"To you your way and to me mine."
You forget about the Holy Sprit though. The Holy Spirit is what guided these men to write the Bible and minister to the Nations. The Holy Spirit also reveals what is scripture and what wasn't. It wasn't a hard task by the way. If a book or "gospel" was contradictory in nature and of dubious origin then it wasn't accepted into cannon.