i have several jw family members.
i have been shunned many years now.
i was not baptized, but i was indoctrinated as a child.
And yet bart Ehrman doesn't believe that jesus was anything more than just a man because of his extensive studies of these fragments and it led him to stop believing that the bible is the word of god and he stopped being a fundamental Christian.
Many of his lectures are available on YouTube would highly recommend you watch them.
Professor James tabor another biblical scholar also has very interesting videos on YouTube about the new testament.
i have several jw family members.
i have been shunned many years now.
i was not baptized, but i was indoctrinated as a child.
There is no original copy of any New Testament document.
I'm aware of that ,so my question is as Christians how can you with any certainty believe that anything anyone said or did in the bible actually happened?
That thing's may have been deliberately embellished or been lost in translation or included to fit the beliefs of the individuals making the copies?
For me facts are more important than faith since l stopped being a jw.
i have several jw family members.
i have been shunned many years now.
i was not baptized, but i was indoctrinated as a child.
The idea of justification seems to be a concept developed by Paul, as there are no original copies of his letters, earliest about the 3rd century.
How can you be sure that the true meaning has not been altered or lost in translation ?
i have several jw family members.
i have been shunned many years now.
i was not baptized, but i was indoctrinated as a child.
Is there any independent evidence that has been verified by independent experts that a miracle worker jesus ever existed and died and was resurrected.
The four gospels accounts were written decades after the so called events and by unknown authors, so not eyewitness accounts.
Saul/Paul not a eyewitnes.
At the supposed death of jesus the sky went dark for three hours, earthquake,the temple curtain ripped in two ,the holy ones walked out of their tombs, even someone who wasn't interested in jesus would have noticed these things.
No mini facts please.
And that millions of people believe something doesn't make it true.
is 31:yet he also is wise and will bring disaster and does not retract his words.. 1 sam 15: furthermore, the eternal one of israel does not lie or change his mind, for he is not man who changes his mind.. numbers 23: god is not a man who lies, or a son of man who changes his mind.
does he speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill?.
when the god you worship pronounces judgement, is he, really just issuing a warning or has the matter been determined through all the godly powers of insight, foresight and perfect judgement?
Man has created thousands of main gods ,each culture through human history has had many gods or just one .
Apollo, Poseidon, Zeus, cronus, dionysus hades etc.
is 31:yet he also is wise and will bring disaster and does not retract his words.. 1 sam 15: furthermore, the eternal one of israel does not lie or change his mind, for he is not man who changes his mind.. numbers 23: god is not a man who lies, or a son of man who changes his mind.
does he speak and not act, or promise and not fulfill?.
when the god you worship pronounces judgement, is he, really just issuing a warning or has the matter been determined through all the godly powers of insight, foresight and perfect judgement?
Man created gods in their image .
The god of the bible behaves exactly like there bronze age creators. Just as men can change their minds so can their imagined god.
the stated focus of this study article is.
focustraining ourselves to discern the difference between the truth we have learned from jehovah and the falsehoods promoted by satan and our opposers.. of course, the article goes on to claim that the truth is not only in the bible, but also from the watchtower organization.
the first of two qualities needed to discern truth is -.
Control and manipulation
You don't need to do any personal research we have done it for you, trust us we know best .
A high control group at its best.
someone asked the following question to an artificial intelligence (ai) website:.
how does the most translated website ensure accuracy of translations?.
answer: .
In the 1954 court case in Scotland regarding Douglas Walsh and jws being exempt from military service. Was fred Franz asked to translate a single bible verse and couldn't.
Lucian was a satirist.
Josephus was born in 37ce not a eyewitness.
A complete copy of his works is dated to around 1100 ce ,so about a 1000 years after the so called events. So there's probably little or nothing of early work, and some of the comments regarding jesus are written in a different style to how josephus wrote. So there's a great probability that the comments were inserted at a later date. So not a reliable source.
So julius caesar made up events and told lies, I see a pattern forming here .
Thanks for clearing that up for me, the death and resurrection account is a made up event and a lie and then embellished decades later by the anonymous authors of the four gospels and yet sadly people today still believe it to be true.
