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LOL Conspiracy Christian.
This is so great
WHAT A FREAKING NOVEL IDEA.
This made me laugh a LOT.
(Source: memesforjesus, via heavygrey)
“Instead of engaging … [the] secular world, most Christians have taken the easy way out. They have retreated into a Christian subculture where they engage Christian concerns. Then they step back into secular society, where their Christianity is kept out of sight until the next church service. Without realizing it Christians have become postmodernists of a sort: they live by the gospel of two truths. There is religious truth reserved for Sundays and days of worship, and there is secular truth, which applies the rest of the time.” — Dinesh D’Souza, What’s So Great About Christianity
“A thoughtless or uninformed theology grips and guides our life with just as great a force as does a thoughtful and informed one.” — Dallas Willard, The Spirit of the Disciplines
(via dillondean)
“What if you saw somebody watching someone else?” — My sister
It’s nice to see I’m not the only one who realized this.
lol
In what way, shape or form does this speak of reliability? The second text on that list demonstrates that quite clearly: the Iliad is not a reliable historical document unless you contend that the Gods of Mount Olympus played a part in the Trojan War.
It was a popular text: lots of people cared about it enough to preserve and copy it. We already know this much.
But by the simple fact that the Bible has known historical errors in, and (by the admission of many believers), is not intended as a historical record at all, what reason turns popularity into reliability?
Fantastic job using critical thinking skills, there. This is clearly a demonstration of manuscript reliability. The point is that people do not question that Homer wrote the Iliad, that Aristotle or Plato’s works are really theirs, yet the earliest manuscripts we have are hundreds of years after they were written. Of course the Iliad is fiction. This image is merely an effort to rebut the popular claim that the New Testament is a collection of books for which we don’t have early/many sources. Not only are the manuscripts far closer to the actual date of the originals than these other works in the comparison, but there is undeniably far more copies. To answer the popular claims of historical inaccuracies in the New Testament would require something else, perhaps a video (in the spirit of linking YouTube videos).
(Source: apologeticsnstuff)