Posted: Sep 25, 2011 8:06 am
By contrast, your arguments seem to trust complex and unlikely readings
Hang on! What precisely is complex and unlikely?
A collection of writings that was put together with a clear agenda over centuries, with unknown provenance - Gospel of Mark may have been written in Alexandria and may be a cover version of Homer.
It might help if we agree the complexity and unlikeliness is already there - born of a virgin, rising from the dead?
For example, what about this bit of complexity? Is the son equal to the father?
We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
one in Being with the Father.