BluePhantom
Educator (of liberals)
And I'm not sure what you've been reading, but there's a lot of evidence for the New Testament being True.
Well there's some, yes. It depends on what part of the NT you are referring to. One of the main things though, in my mind and in the minds of a lot of scholars, is that it's not the kind of story a Jew would make up. From a modern perspective we think it's exactly the kind of story someone would make up but it's really not. The idea of the Messiah getting killed by the Romans and suffering is totally contrary to what the ancient Jews thought the Messiah would be. It was absolutely abhorrent to envision the Messiah in such a situation. This is one of the reasons why Jews rejected Jesus then and continue to today. It's not at all the kind of thing someone would make up because it is completely embarrassing. Thus, according to the criterion of embarrassment the story has more credibility.
I disagree with your contention that the NT is "not the kind of story that a jew
would make up.." in fact it is very much a jewish kind of story. It is SO jewish--
that I truly believe that some of the books called gospels were written by jews----even if the books may have been edited a bit later on by constatine and company.
The books called gospels include accurate historical data. It could not have been
simply invented decades later
Well they were probably written by converted Jews yeah. As far as the accurate historical data...some yes and some no. Again it depends on what you are referring to. But the main point is that the Jewish vision of what the Messiah was supposed to be was not what Jesus did. This is why Jews reject Jesus...he didn't fulfill the Messianic prophecies. He didn't return the line of David to the throne of Israel. He didn't drive the Romans out of the promised land, etc. He got nailed to a log. Ok...that doesn't jive with what the Messiah was supposed to be. So who the heck would make it up?