Posted: May 06, 2012 11:13 pm
Blood wrote:Corky wrote:
Then there is the assumption that there are true facts to be found in the Bible, when there isn't. The only truth about it is that over a period of several centuries a bunch of religious con-men made that shit up out of thin air. There was no Genesis flood, there was no tower of Babel, no Exodus from Egypt, no conquest of Canaan and last but not least, there was no "revelations" of a Jewish god-man and the ones who claimed to have witnessed a resurrection were liars.
Knowing that these people were lying about seeing a resurrection - why would anyone in their right mind believe any damn thing else they said? But Ehrman does - Ehrman thinks Paul is an honest man.
Indeed. By our modern standards, all Judeo-Christian literary theology is pure fiction invented by con artists. It may be true that, historically speaking, they viewed themselves as revelators and prophets and holy men getting direct transmission from God, but that really doesn't alter the fact that by modern standards, they were liars and con artists on a grand scale, Paul being the ancient world's equivalent of Benny Hinn.
Jesus doesn't say or do anything a real person would. He just does scripture and talks scripture - he never, ever does anything else. And Paul, he's more like Joseph Smith - while Paul's Jesus is more like the golden plates that only certain people ever saw. It takes a con artist to figure out a con artist's trick and Joseph Smith figured it out and instead of using a god-man to fool people, Smith used god-plates to do the same trick. And, look how quick he did it. In only a few weeks time and he had a holy book, witnesses of the non-existent god-plates and believers.