Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Pastimes : Ask God -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (26165)	7/10/1999 4:07:00 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 39621

"And, pardon me, are you actually trying to claim that the presence of contradictions in a document increases its reliability?????" No. What I said was: "though different perspectives on a single historical account usually include some minor discrepancies." Reliable eyewitness historical documents all have minor discrepancies, but they are reasonably consistent in preserving the central event. Your example: JUDGE: Mr. Olsen, didn't you just tell us 15 minutes ago that you saw Mr. Smith shoot Mr. Jones? Mr. Olsen: Well, yes , your honor, but I was lying then; now I'm telling the truth. helps to illustrates the point perfectly. The central events in Christs' life are: raising the dead, healing the incurable, His Crucifixion and Resurrection. Although their are minor discrepancies in the Gospels, when it comes to the central events, they are perfectly consistent. Again quoting my previous words: "The Gospels present a consistent portrait of who Jesus is and what He did, as well as of the events which surrounded His life. If the four accounts were individually fabricated, where did this consistency come from? But there are also significant differences of their perspectives. If they were all fabricated together, the consistency would be greater than we find. The internal evidence of self-consistency is a powerful testimony to the authenticity of the Gospels as historical documents." And I also said: Is the document reasonably self-consistent? There is a coherence to truth which fabrications usually lack, though different perspectives on a single historical account usually include some minor discrepancies. The Gospels fulfill this historical criterion very well.