[NYer]

A classic, ping!

[MuttTheHoople]

If Christ had not been raised, then all our worshipping is for naught. However, He IS Risen, and we place our hope on His Blood and Righteousness.

As for the Gospels "contradicting" each other, picture four blind people trying to describe an Elephant to you after only touching 1/4 of the animal...or perhaps four people describing a car driving down the road from four different angles.

[Lil Flower]

BTTT

[cuban leaf]

“Jesus never existed” rubbish is the 9/11 Trutherism of biblical studies. Atheists who embrace it only demonstrate that their contempt for their subject has the inevitable effect of doing what all sin does: making you stupid.

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That’s my take. When I argue with “anti-christians” I separate them into two groups: Those that don’t know what they are talking about and are just arguing; and those that have real information and are at least discussing it from a position of knowledge.

The former group, if they argue vehemently, are an example of arrogant ignorance. The latter is more dangerous, if that even applies here. They are attacking Jesus’ divinity and accusing him of being a Mohammad or David Koresh.

[Salvation]

News, not fiction! Good line!

[AnAmericanMother]

Exactly. I'm in the writing racket for a living, and every style of writing has its own "fingerprints" so to speak.

The Gospels (and Acts) are straight reportorial writing, from witnesses. Everything about them - the choice of words and phrases, the periodic asides, the attention to what seems to be irrelevant detail (the example C.S. Lewis gives us is when Jesus stoops down and writes in the dust before the woman taken in adultery) - speaks of writing down factual events in plain language to be communicated to others.

I think it was also C.S. Lewis who pointed out that unless the Gospel authors all managed to simultaneously invent the realistic epistolary novel 1800 years too early, it's not fiction!

[Mrs. Don-o]

bumpus ad summus

[Straight Vermonter]

Just catching up on my reading after a whirlwind Triduum and Easter. I’m glad I didn’t miss this one. Thanks NYer.