Posted on 09/12/2014 8:55:34 AM PDT by Kaslin
It is indeed.
He is risen!
>> Haven’t the followers of other religious leaders ...
Given Islam is a war plan, the aggressive suicide bombers don’t qualify.
As a former boss put it to me:
"Either the dude did rise from the dead or he didn't."
According to one's belief in that "fact", one can choose their faith.
It was only years later that I learned that:
David Limbaugh ping for later
A lawyer’s perspective on facts and evidence.
When I was in law school, when I learned about eye-witnesses and the uncomfortable facts that can “screw-up” otherwise completely logical theories, it increased my Christian faith a lot. The fact of the Resurrection and Jesus’ followers’ response to it would never have been made up by people trying to create a credible, logical movement. They would have smoothed out the wrinkles and conveniently forgotten some embarrassing things. There would have been no mysteries left unexplained.
The Kingdom of Heaven is like a pearl. There’s a hard grain of reality at its center.
Actually the gospel accounts are not precisely accurate in that the four gospels have slight discrepancies. As a genealogist this is one aspect that truly excites me. What we have here are eyewitness accounts recorded in these gospels. The slight inaccuracies are proof that they are not fabricated (otherwise they would perfectly match) and are events actually witnessed by humans. If four people write down accounts of any event there will be small insignificant differences. These events actually happened. As Christians we know this but every once in a while I do marvel at it.
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“Who gave us the scriptures?”
Council of Carthage 397
http://www.letusreason.org/rc15.htm
Yes plus there are slight differences in some details. I have a special study bible that is pretty cool in that it lays out the gospels side by side so you see these little differences. Again - they are slight. But they are exactly the type of small differences you would see with four separate human accounts of anything. Skeptics think of it as an “ah ha” moment and they think they have found mistakes. That’s low level thinking. What it really means it these are real human accounts. Those differences are irrelevant facts that have nothing to do with the core gospel and resurrection.
The Bible was compiled by the Catholic Church and the canon of books later approved.
What Bible was printed by the Gutenberg Press?
The Catholic Vulgate — the only Bible at that time.
That is an excellent article! Thank you for posting that.
Abraham believed God and THEN it was credited to him as righteousness.
The idea that faith is believing in something that is not true or cannot be verified is wrong.
1 Corinthians 2 states that our faith rests in the power of God, not words of wisdom.
God acts, and we believe and it’s still faith.
No....Actually the Catholic Church in 397 the Council of Carthage had the 27 books considered the canon. However these books were read and distributed as Scripture for over 300 years by individual Christians and church’s long before their church councils claimed to give us the Bible.
The truth is .....We can produce almost all the New Testament from the church fathers writings and quotations before the year 150 A.D. proving that there was no church government to approve of what was in or out....
The Scripture is God breathed, its origin is with God, it is not man given (2 Pt.1:21)
(from Let Us Reason)
Thanks for ping to that article...I agree....excellent article!
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