No, that wasn’t an argument, it was a question.
If you want an honest discussion, lets go to male. If you are showing off, and offering dishonest arguments, stay right here.
Without me.
Showing off? Really?
OK, I’ll go easy on you no more origins questions.
What is your explanation of the cambrian explosion?
Or maybe you could explain polystrate fossils?
Or maybe not...
As for the things you claim about the authors of the Scriptures, I can only say you are very ignorant. Otherwise you would not try and claim Mark was not present during the life of Christ.
Even the most leftist of atheists readily admit that mark was peters nephew. Plus Mark was present when Christ was arrested.However, most of Marks information came from his uncle Peter.
You need to stop claiming you read the scriptures because your own statement prove you never did.
I will pray for you, because you tread on such shaky grounds that even Dawkins would call you a fool for the claims you make.
Just so you have something more to think about, consider the evidence we have for the authenticity of the Scriptures is greater than for any other piece of literature from antiquity. Bar NONE!.
In the last 2000 years there have been many, many men who are much more greater than you could ever hope to become, who have tried to discredit or destroy the Bible. Yet each and everyone has failed. the facts stand on their own that there is more evidence for the authenticity and accuracy of the Scriptures than for any other ancient book. No one who has studied these issues doubts the genuineness of the Bible. They may reject the message, but try as they have, they could not and neither will you, discredit the authenticity of the Scriptures or the authors.
Textual analysis begins with historical investigation, beginning with the latest documents and working backward. As evidence develops, the data is evaluated against other sources. The record is then checked for consistency of information, and the claims are analyzed as if it were a legal case, looking for credible testimony with cross-examination. There is an enormous amount of evidence for authenticity of the biblical manuscripts.
The New Testament was written in first century A.D. There are some 20,000 manuscripts in existence. The earliest textual evidence we have was copied 100 years after the original. In contrast:
There are many more writings of the Church Fathers quoting sections of Scripture; we could reconstruct the entire New Testament from their writings alone. There were millions of man-hours spent in cross-checking the manuscripts. There remains only 1 percent of all New Testament words about which questions still exist; no questionable passage contradicts any Bible teaching.
The Old Testament has been more accurately transmitted to us than any other ancient writing of comparable age. The textual evidence is greater for both the Old and New Testaments than any other historically reliable ancient document. The ancient scribes were very meticulous. There were only 1,200 variant readings in A.D. 500.
The Masorites produced an official text in A.D. 500. There are other versions that confirm the accuracy of the Masoritic Text.
The quotations from pre-Christian writing confirm the text. The New Testament accepts the Old Testament as authentic, confirming the traditional authors, quoting from at least 320 different passages, and confirming the supernatural events cited in the Old Testament.
But then again, you would rather do this over mail so that the proof of your ignorance will never be seen by those who are not up to par enough to take you and your pathetic attempt at discrediting the Bible on.
I made an error, I meant to write that Mark was Barnabas’s nephew. he was the son of Barnabas’s sister’s. However he was present when Christ was arrested. He would probably have been about 12 to 14 at the time.
He was the young man who had his cloak taken from him when they tried to grab him but ran away naked from the garden where Jesus was arrested.
Also, Mark most likely got the information for his gospel from peter whom he traveled with to Babylon and most likely to Rome, when he met up with Paul while he was in prison just before he was beheaded by Nero.