Mind if I jump in and help out, Straightforward?
I said the same was true of the Bible. For example:
Leviticus 11:19 says bats are birds.
Considering this was written
before our current system of classification was invented, this argument is really retarded, since it is nothing more than anachronistic argumentation.
Leviticus 11:23 says insects, including beetles, locusts, and grasshoppers, have four legs.
Well dont they? I can count four legs on each one of those what about you? Furthermore, you are also using anachronistic argumentation again. Although insects have six legs, perhaps people in ancient times did not count as ordinary legs the two large hind legs used for jumping.
The story in Genesis 11:1 of how and when different languages came about does not line up with historical evidence.
A baseless assertion. Were you there? Do you have documents that speak along the lines of How our language changed? All thats spoken of as happening at the Tower of Babel was the initial change, not that any further changes would not occur after that, causing further distances between languages (some more than others).
Psalms 19:4-6 claim that the sun revolves around the earth.
If you hadnt noticed, Psalms is also poetry, and Im sorry to say that if youre going to take all poetry literally, youre going to misinterpret the vast majority of all poems. Even scientists today still use phrases like sunset or sunrise, even when they know the sun isnt literally setting down or rising up, but is staying in one spot.
I am not trying to claim the Bible authors were dumb.
No, youre just trying to show them to be ignorant, which is almost the same.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but no serious Biblical scholar thinks the apostles wrote any of the New Testament.
What? Like the Jesus Seminar? Their tactics are questionable at best and insulting at worst. There are plenty of Bible scholars who have concluded through the use of reason that the gospels and Epistles were written by the Apostles or their contemporaries (Like Paul having someone write down the things he says and send it as a letter to a given church).
Who decided it was the end of the New Testament writings? Whoever put the New Testament together.
This is when you get into the principles of canonicity, which is a whole study all in itself. The church is the discoverer, child, minister, recognizer, witness, and servant of the canon.
Aside from a few fragments, the earliest New Testament we have is from the 4th Century BC.
Fourth Century BC, huh? Wow, thats 400 years before Christ even came, and yet there were New Testament manuscripts in circulation even then? Thats really interesting.
The New Testament we are familar[sic] with now is the result of decisions made in Rome by the early church on what would or would not go in there.
This is the incorrect view concerning the relationship between church and canon. You seem to be saying that the church is the determiner of the canon, whereas thats not true the church is the
discoverer of it.
But as I stated above (and as you would learn in an introductory New Testament class) none of the writings we have now are from the apostles.
We may not have the autographs, but that doesnt mean the information or message is all of a sudden not from the apostles. And by the way, I've already taken New Testament Survey at the college level, and yet somehow, I still adamantly disagree with your assertions.
