"The very conception of the Messiah, or Christ is inextricably interwoven within Jewish History; the identification of Jesus of Nazareth with that Messiah rests upon the interpretation of the passages of the Hebrew Scriptures which have no evidential value unless they possess the historical character assigned to them"
" If the covenant with Abraham was not made; if circumcision and sacrifices where not ordained by Jehovah; if the "ten words" were not written by God’s hand on the stone tables; if Abraham is more or less a mythical hero, such as a Theseus; the Story of the Deluge a fiction; that of the Fall a legend; and that of Creation the dream of a seer;
"… if all these definate and detailed narratives of apparently real events have no more real value as history than have the stories of the regal period of Rome- What is said to be of Messianic doctrine, which is so much less clearly enunciated"
"and what about the authority of the writers of the books of the New Testament, who, on this theory, have not accepted mere flimsy fictions for solid truths, but have built the very foundations of Christian Dogma upon legendary quicksands?’
sorry it’s a bit long, but it is crazy good! Here is a atheist, holding to the logical conclusion of our faith!
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