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Originally Posted by photon
Most people don't know this though.. I mean pastors are taught it at seminary, but when they get to churches they seem to teach mostly from a devotional point of view, they don't touch anything that the past 300 years of Biblical scholarship has worked out.
So most don't have any cognitive dissonance, because they haven't read the gospels horizontally, or struggled with the discrepancies, or know that many of the books were written fraudulently (many of the Pauline letters weren't authored by Paul), etc etc. As far as they know the Bible is inerrant because they haven't seen any different.
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It's too bad most of the posters aren't like you and in these threads we always degenerate into simple Christian/Atheist bashing from people who have little knowledge of the other side. It'd be nice if we could have an intellectual discussion on things like this and the discrepancies between synoptic gospels and John, apocryphal gospels, Paulism, discussions of the Torah, etc. I miss Textcritic in these threads, he was the only real scholar on these matters that I know of in CP.