🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 23:26:22 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwinn3@juno.com> wrote
in alt.atheism:

>On Aug 2, 9:56?pm, Free Lunch <lu...@nofreelunch.us> wrote:
>> On Sat, 2 Aug 2008 15:04:19 -0700 (PDT), rbwinn <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote
>> in alt.atheism:
>>

...

>>
>> >It means the same in Greek as it does in English.
>>
>> How familiar are you with ancient Greek. What word was used in Luke?
>> Feel free to transcribe it using the traditional Latin character
>> substitutes for the Greek letters, since usenet isn't necessarily
>> designed to support non-latin characters.
>>
>> As for your desire to believe that Luke was a physician and that he
>> wrote the gospel of that name, no evidence supports it. The framing of
>> the gospel appears to be designed to target a certain audience. Framing
>> is not unusual. Simon Morgenstern is a fairly famous author of a story
>> called The Princess Bride. Of course, there is the problem that Simon
>> Morgenstern never existed except in the imagination, particularly of
>> William Goldman, but also of everyone who suspends disbelief long enough
>> to enjoy the story.
>>
>> The Bible is a story. It can be fun to suspend disbelief for a while as
>> you read it, but you need to bring your critical facilities to bear
>> after a while. You do yourself no favor by deluding yourself about what
>> the Bible is.- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
>The Bible is two testaments of Jesus Christ, the Old Testament and the
>New Testament.

The Bible is a collection of stories. Neither the Old Testament nor the
New are reliable for any reason at all. When tested against history and
science, they fail.