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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (26167)	7/11/1999 3:18:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 39621

And, of course, there's a little point you ignored: "I thought the babble was supposed to be divinely inspired! If it was written by mere humans without divine help, how do you know where the errors are? Eyewitness testimony is notoriously unreliable. And how do you these "historians" didn't toss their own agenda in? Mere human historians do it all the time!" The earliest extant babble fragments are from 60-70 AD- -at least 30 years after the crucifixion. The final version of the babble was not set until the 300s (Council of Nicea, I believe). Plenty of time for memories to fade and be distorted. And plenty of time for salesmen to work out their pitches, too. Also, many doctrinal points depend on single passages and sometimes single words in the babble. Errors and spin become important then.

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (26167)	7/11/1999 3:57:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 39621

I don't think you understand the problem here: ""I thought the babble was supposed to be divinely inspired!" If the babble isn't divinely inspired - -if it is just a history written by mere fallible, error-prone mortals- -then it is EASY to come up with much more likely explanations of the babble's existence and its tale than that *A MAN WAS KILLED- -DEAD- -AND THEN CAME BACK TO LIFE, WANDERED AROUND, TALKED TO HIS FRIENDS, AND THEN DISAPPEARED OFF THE PLANET. AND HE DID IT TO CONVINCE US OF HIS STORY* Once. And only once in history. And two thousand years ago. With no clear, verifiable evidence or incidents since then to convince the skeptics. The babble asks for faith. (Of course, the call for faith is made because the story cannot be verified.) Would it be rude to point out that con men ask for faith also? Honest men don't need to. They can convince you by their record and their deeds.