Posted on 05/09/2006 11:22:42 AM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
Anyone who changes their faith based upon a work of fiction was never very faithful in the first place. And any religion that cannot withstand debate, analysis, 'what if' is already pretty rocky to begin with.
Same as the new "Judas Gospel" that they've been talking about recently. I think that is a fiction as well, but it will produce great debate (theological and otherwise). "What if" Jesus asked Judas to betray him so he could fulfill the Father's plan? Do you think that Christianity is going to collapse because someone asked a sticky question, because someone asked "what if" Jesus married and had children? Please. It'll make it stronger than ever (IMO).
Where? Since it was written well into the 2d Century, who was still alive?
Since they were all dead for decades before the Bible was written, it's pretty simple!
Okay, I told myself last night. ONE MORE FREAKIN' POST DENOUNCING THIS MOVIE AND I'LL DEFINITELY GO SEE IT.
As far as I know, Tom Clancy doesn't do that, at least not on the same scale.
How would people react if someone made a movie about MLK in which he was portraied as a murderer? I don't think people would take very kindly to that. I certainly wouldn't.
BTTT!
I'm no fan of Kennedy, but he nails it here.
Nonsense. The Synoptic Gospels were written somewhere between 60-75 AD. That's between 30-45 years of Jesus' departure from the Earth, which took place in approximately 30 AD. Since the synoptic evangelists were around 20-30 years old when Jesus left the Earth, their Gospels were written within their plausible lifetimes. Granted, they would have to have lived to be 50-70 years old, which was not all that common in those days, but it was not exceedingly rare, either.
John's Gosepel was written somewhere around 95 AD. John was a teenager when Jesus walked the Earth. If he was 15 at that time, that would make him about 80 years old when he wrote his gospel. Yes, he would have had to live to a ripe old age that few people managed to reach, but not such an old age as to render his authorship implausible. There are other sources that attest to John's longevity.
twice more and I'll buy the DVD. :-)
What goes around comes around. Would you be so sanguine if a book made you look like a lunatic raving conspirator like the NT made the Pharisees look?
Or those authors who have written of actual people and events as a fictional 'friend' (Reagan bioigraphy, God and Generals, etc). Again, real people and events, false story.
i guess we'll agree to disagree.
bttt
I have asked on several of these DVC threads why the Church didn't go bananas over the Body, a MUCH more "sacrilegious" movie.
They don't make up false, slanderous stories about real people who command the respect and reverence of millions.
What would you say to a novelist who turned George Washington or Benjamin Franklin or any other of our national heros into a cold-blooded murderer?
Or those authors who have written of actual people and events as a fictional 'friend' (Reagan bioigraphy, God and Generals, etc). Again, real people and events, false story.
Okay, but in each of these cases, the fiction does not materially change the true character of the people involved. Nor is anything slanderous made up about them.
If you are going to have a debate, decide what is debatable. It is being presented in a sensational manner as though the manuscript revealed new information about Christ. What it reveals is the exact contents of the "gospel." We now have a manuscript that substantiates what Irenaeus wrote ca. in 180 AD. in his outline of its contents.
Because Brown's book has a much wider audience.
The notion that the New Testament was written in the 2nd Century was asserted by the first modernist Biblical critics, but no one, not even modernists, think that is the case any more.
You obviously have no knowledge whatsoever of the authorship of the Bible. Only the 2 books by Luke, Luke and Acts, might possibly have been written by someone who was not personally aquainted with Jesus.
This book makes my blood boil!
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