You HAVE to believe EVERYTHING Jesus said!

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Re: You HAVE to believe EVERYTHING Jesus said!

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Philo Sofee wrote:http://www.patheos.com/blogs/danpeterson/2017/05/it-all-hinges-on-this.html

This quotes Timothy Keller in perhaps the most idiotic thinking I have seen in a very long time. If Jesus rose from the dead you HAVE to believe everything he said! The problem here is, we have nothing about what Jesus said, only later authors who imagined he said this or that. There are no eye witnesses to anything about Jesus in the Bible, all of it being written after he was long gone, and none of it by anyone who ever saw or even heard anything he said....... And even if he rose from the dead, giving the benefit of the doubt to it, I don't see how it follows that I have to believe everything he said.

It's a twist on the law of the jungle. Instead of the survival of the fittest, Keller's "point" is that one who possess a supernatural power must also be correct about everything the he pontificates about. That is simply a non sequitur.
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Philo Sofee wrote:You rarely grasp the significance of anything any of us say.....
Grasping dumb comments is a problem for me, I readily admit.
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zerinus wrote:
Philo Sofee wrote:You rarely grasp the significance of anything any of us say.....
Grasping dumb comments is a problem for me, I readily admit.


You fail to grasp any comments.......
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Philo Sofee wrote:You fail to grasp any comments.......
That is falsified if it can be shown that I understood at least one comment, which I did in the case of the above—even though it was still dumb! :lol:
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zerinus wrote:
Philo Sofee wrote:You fail to grasp any comments.......
That is falsified if it can be shown that I understood at least one comment, which I did in the case of the above—even though it was still dumb! :lol:


It shows the poster (you in this case in case you shut off your brain again to make dumber comments) is the dumb one, not the comment.
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