Help! All Christians please. no other comments.
Can you help me by answering the following directly and not by inuendo of character.
A good illustration of the mythical or unhistorical character
of the New Testament is furnished by the story of John the Baptist.
He is first represented as confessing publicly that Jesus is the
Christ; that he himself is not worthy to unloose the latchet of his
shoes; and that Jesus is the Lamb of God, "who taketh away the sins
of the. world." John was also present, the gospels say, when the
heavens opened and a dove descended on Jesus' head, and he heard
the voice from the skies, crying: "He is my beloved Son, in whom I
am well pleased."
Is it possible that, a few chapters later, this same John
forgets his public confession, -- the dove and the voice from
heaven, -- and actually sends two of his disciples to find out who
this Jesus is. [Matthew xi.] The only way we can account for such
strange conduct is that the compiler or editor in question had two
different myths or stories before him, and he wished to use them
both.
Come to think about can a non Christian post an answer.
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