Evidence for why we know the New Testament writers told the truth.

[RoboTimbo]

What choo talkin bout, Willis?

 

[Lucian]

silly mistake, noticed too late for edit function.

I know what you mean. I'm anal enough to spend 5 hours on a 5 paragraph post, proofreading, editing, rewriting clumsy sentences, and then I miss one little thing; like an apostrophe or an "s" where there should have been a "c," that I only catch after the edit function times out.

But at least it keeps (most but not all) people (relatively) honest, so they can't change crappy arguments after the fact (that doesn't happen on this thread does it?).


GB

It's my personal belief There is evidence that typos and piddling mistakes spontaneously spring up in carefully crafted and scrupulously proofread prose. It's all the work of the typo-pixies. Well, when I say "evidence," I mean I read a few quotations from a book by Sir Luke Ramsey Geisler called Do I Have Enough Faith to Use Question Marks. Did you know that former slave Frederick Douglass, who became the most famous black man on the planet, spelled his name with too many esses? This may not be proof, but surely it is evidence that the existence of the pixies is the truth.

 

[Rincewind]

It's my personal belief There is evidence that typos and piddling mistakes spontaneously spring up in carefully crafted and scrupulously proofread prose. It's all the work of the typo-pixies. Well, when I say "evidence," I mean I read a few quotations from a book by Sir Luke Ramsey Geisler called Do I Have Enough Faith to Use Question Marks. Did you know that former slave Frederick Douglass, who became the most famous black man on the planet, spelled his name with too many esses? This may not be proof, but surely it is evidence that the existence of the pixies is the truth.

Shouldn't this be in CT?

 

[DOC]

...Could phony gospels written by liars 2000 years ago have had this kind of power to help produce these great men out of broken hearted poor slaves?

Dianetics? Tom Cruise? DOC just proved that Scientology is real!

Frederick Douglass and the Rev. Martin Luther King helped change the course of history. I doubt Tom Cruise will have much effect on history -- he can't even get any more decent roles because of his past behavior.

Although Dianetics might have tapped into some "partial" truth which gives it some power, just like Islam (in my opinion) has tapped into some partial truth.

 

[DOC]

DOC still hasn't answered why he thinks an abolitionist would back him, given that that he's supportive of slavery...

weird post.

 

[zooterkin]

Frederick Douglass and the Rev. Martin Luther King helped change the course or history.

They did indeed. How is this evidence that the New Testament writers told the truth?

 

[zooterkin]

weird post.

What's weird about it? Seems straightforward to me. You think an abolitionist would support you, yet you have expressed support for slavery. Care to comment?

 

[DOC]

What's weird about it? Seems straightforward to me. You think an abolitionist would support you, yet you have expressed support for slavery. Care to comment?

Which post?

More attack the messenger.

 

[DOC]

They did indeed. How is this evidence that the New Testament writers told the truth?

I've already said why on the previous page.

 

[ddt]

I've already said why on the previous page.

Because it inspired people, it must be true?

The opera "La Muette de Portici" inspired Belgian citizens to start the Belgian revolution in 1830. By the same token, the tale of that opera is true too?

BTW, why are you loathe this time to repeat your arguments? Most of the time, you don't tire of rehashing the same broken arguments ad nauseam.

ETA: some more DOC-logic:
Norse mythology inspired Tolkien to write his masterpiece LOTR, so Odin and Thor exist.

 

[Gandalfs Beard]

ETA: some more DOC-logic:
Norse mythology inspired Tolkien to write his masterpiece LOTR, so Odin and Thor exist.

I resent that. I do exist.

Don't know about these Odin and Thor characters though! Sounds like fictional characters from a Marvel Comic being turned into a film to me.


GB

PS: Tolkien was just writing my biography and an historical background to put my existence into context. I'm living proof that Tolkien's Historical Documents are the Truth. Beat that DOC. Does your God write posts on the internet proving his Existence and the Truth of the NT?

 

[welshdean]

and became the most well known black man in America.

I thought that was Tiger Woods...

My guess was Bill Cosby. Does this mean we fail at history?

Not OJ then?

No President Obama either, or Martin Luther King

Muhammad Ali?

What choo talkin bout, Willis?

I'm going for Billie Dee Williams.

 

[welshdean]

It's my personal belief There is evidence that typos and piddling mistakes spontaneously spring up in carefully crafted and scrupulously proofread prose. It's all the work of the typo-pixies. Well, when I say "evidence," I mean I read a few quotations from a book by Sir Luke Ramsey Geisler called Do I Have Enough Faith to Use Question Marks. Did you know that former slave Frederick Douglass, who became the most famous black man on the planet, spelled his name with too many esses? This may not be proof, but surely it is evidence that the existence of the pixies is the truth.

Proof enough for me! There is more evidence in this paragraph for 'Typo-Pixies' than DOC has managed to provide [for NT truthiness] in 16,765,098,463,231,849,862,429,076 posts in this thread.

 

[amb]

I wonder if DOC realises that none of the gospels were written by the claimed authors.
All were anonymous. Titles were only given them decades later.

 

[dafydd]

I wonder if DOC realises that none of the gospels were written by the claimed authors.
All were anonymous. Titles were only given them decades later.

No,he does not know even one basic fact about the gospels but yet he soldiers on,making a spectacle of himself. I still think that this is an attempt to get into the Guinness Book Of Records for the longest internet trolling record. Nobody could be this dim.

 

[dafydd]

I'm going for Billie Dee Williams.

Well it isn't Michael Jackson,although I can remember him when he was black.

 

[welshdean]

Well it isn't Michael Jackson,although I can remember him when he was black.

I too have witnessed enough rotations of our Earth to remember that far back.

And for our younger viewers, do you like to play 'spot-the-difference'

 

[Akhenaten]

...Could phony gospels written by liars 2000 years ago have had this kind of power to help produce these great men out of broken hearted poor slaves?

Dianetics? Tom Cruise? DOC just proved that Scientology is real!

Frederick Douglass and the Rev. Martin Luther King helped change the course of history.

As did Genghis Khan, Suleiman the Magnificent, Albert Gitchell and Atilla the Hun.

So bloody what?

I doubt Tom Cruise will have much effect on history -- he can't even get any more decent roles because of his past behavior.

Disregarding the accustomed non-sequituriness of this observation, in what way has Frederick Douglass affected history more than Cruisus airheadicus? Show your working.

Although Dianetics might have tapped into some "partial" truth which gives it some power, just like Islam (in my opinion) has tapped into some partial truth.

And yet you would have us believe that Christianity alone has accessed the motherlode of the whole truth?

The only thing more breathtaking than the arrogance of this vapid assertion is your apparent conviction that the shambling and at times deranged apologetics presented in this thread will convince anyone at all of its truth.

 

[pakeha]

I'm going for Billie Dee Williams.

Muddy Waters.

 

[jond]

As did Genghis Khan, Suleiman the Magnificent, Albert Gitchell and Atilla the Hun.

So bloody what?





Diregarding the accustomed non-sequituriness of this observation, in what way has Frederick Douglass affected history more than Cruisus airheadicus? Show your working.





And yet you would have us believe that Christianity alone has accessed the motherlode of the whole truth?

The only thing more breathtaking than the arrogance of this vapid assertion is your apparent conviction that the shambling and at times deranged apologetics presented in this thread will convince anyone at all of its truth.

Beat me to it. Thanks, Aberhaten. I bow to yer greatness. And I look forward to DOC's attempt to special plead his way around it!