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<blockquote data-quote="lucaspa" data-source="post: 57295021" data-attributes="member: 4882"><p>You have pointed up an inconsistency. By itself, the criteria that the gospels can't be trusted because they were written 30-60 years after Jesus' death doesn't work. We accept the accuracy of other historical documents written at even longer times after the events. So that criteria is invalid.</p><p> </p><p>However, as some people have pointed out, Christians too distrust claims about divinity from other religions. For instance, even tho archeological evidence shows that Troy, Mycenae, and Agamemnon existed, do you also accept the claims for the existence of Zeus, Athena, etc. in the <em>Iliad?</em></p><p> </p><p>Moving closer to our own time, Joseph Smith claims to have received a history of North America from an angel that documents the appearance of Jesus to the Amerindians. Do you accept that document as history?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lucaspa, post: 57295021, member: 4882"] You have pointed up an inconsistency. By itself, the criteria that the gospels can't be trusted because they were written 30-60 years after Jesus' death doesn't work. We accept the accuracy of other historical documents written at even longer times after the events. So that criteria is invalid. However, as some people have pointed out, Christians too distrust claims about divinity from other religions. For instance, even tho archeological evidence shows that Troy, Mycenae, and Agamemnon existed, do you also accept the claims for the existence of Zeus, Athena, etc. in the [I]Iliad?[/I] Moving closer to our own time, Joseph Smith claims to have received a history of North America from an angel that documents the appearance of Jesus to the Amerindians. Do you accept that document as history? [/QUOTE]
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