Was the Bible written by Satan?

[pauluzzz1981]

ArnoldRimmer said:

pauluzzz1981 said:

ArnoldRimmer said:
God? Pfffft, what a ridiculous concept! Satan on the other hand... Now that is something that seems perfectly reasonable and credible!

Even the most hardcore christians I know are perfectly aware that the bible is a rather arbitrary collection of several texts, written by a number of unknown humans, with especially the new testament texts all being written down several decades after Jesus assumed death, usually by people who were not even alive back at the time.

Why is it always atheists constantly creating threads about god, religion etc.? Serious question, I wonder why many of them are so obsessed with something they consider just a kind of fairytale for childs anyway. You rarely see Asantaists or Aeasterbunnyists creating threads speculating about christmas being a Grinch invention...

not true.

Craig L. Blomberg: The Historical Reliability Of The Gospels

Lee Strobel: The case for Christ

not true.

Arnold J. Rimmer: The Historical Reliability Of ArnoldRimmer Postings

Dave Lister: The case for my hologram buddy

 

But seriously: I'm sure you don't seriously believe that I will get out, buy and read two books just because you placed their titles in this thread, without any further explanation. So what was the purpose of that posting? If you think that there is information in these books relevant to the subject, just write it down so everyone can discuss it.

Great! I wil do that. Need to do some research but i will be back.

First this, more is coming.

Let's compare the New Testament with some other writings of olden days. The New Testament was written over a time period of 60 years. We have over 24,000 copies and some of the copies we have are only 25 years removed from the originals! Caesar's work, The Gallic Wars, was written over a 56 year
period. We have 10 copies, the closest to the original is 1,000 years removed. We have 643 copies of Homer's Iliad and there is a 500 year span between the original and oldest existing copy. So you see, no other work comes close to the New Testament. So why do so many put down the Bible as being inaccurate and untrustworthy?

Author	When Written	Earliest Copy Still in Existence Today	Time Span Between 1st Written and Oldest Copy	Number of Ancient Copies in Existence Today
Pliny the Younger	A.D. 61-113	850 A.D.	750 yrs	7
Caesar	100- 44 B.C.	900 A.D.	1,000 yrs.	10
Plato	427-347 B.C.	900 A. D.	1,200 yrs.	7
Aristolte	384-322 B.C.	. 1100 A. D.	1,400 yrs.	37
Sophocles	496-406 B.C.	1000 A.D.	1,400 yrs.	193
Euripedes	480-406 B.C.	1100 A.D.	1,500 yrs.	9
Catallus	54 B.C.	1550 A.D.	1,600 yrs.	3
New Testament	48 A. D. (Mark)	130 A.D. (N.T.)	80 yrs.	24,630

 

 

I love these sorts of discussions. I am a christian, but i als love science. And not the ''the earth is 6000 years old science'', but archeology and that kind of stuff.