my reply to
Peter vs. Paul?: Baur’s Tübingen Thesis Debunked
The purpose of this blog is a) to refute arguments and beliefs propagated by Christian "apologists" and b) to restore my reputation after one homosexual atheist Christian apologist trashed it so much that he got slapped with four libel-lawsuits.
I received this in my email, but the page it was hosted on appears to have been removed ===================== Bellator Christi Read on blo...
apologists spin this text and say "but but but...jesus did work on sabbath, changed the laws pertaining to divorce..."
ReplyDeletesure, but all that matters is whether the legalistic interpretation of Mathew 23:3 is reasonable. There is no intellectual compulsion on a skeptic to 'reconcile' any statement of Jesus with every other statement in the bible.
DeleteThere is no rule of historiography, hermeneutics or common sense that requires that we first make all attempts to harmonize everything anybody ever said and avoid charging them with contradiction until after all harmonization attempts prove to have failed. And Jesus seems to have created an alternative form of Judaism, the kind that pretends to uphold all the laws while not really upholding all the laws.