Now let me say first up that I am not a church going person , I have no strong faith and if you were to tell me that the concept of God was something that Ron Howard dreamt up my life would go on exactly as before. I consider myself an existentialist , that is to say I believe in me.
As such I am always wary of bible bashers , people who quote scripture to defend scripture and am well aware that you can find stuff in the bible that could sway just about any argument either way.
So it is with some reticence that I use the following passage ,
borrowed from
http://www.bible-origin.com/ .
It seems that the question of Bible origin turns on the truth of its divine inspiration. In Luke 24:27,44; John 5:39; and Hebrews 10:7, Jesus says that what was written about him in the Old Testament would come to pass. Romans 3:2 and Hebrews 5:12 refer to the Old Testament as the Word of God. We read in 1 Corinthians 2:13, "This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit." This is confirmed in 2 Timothy 3:16. In 1 Thessalonians 2:13, Paul when referring to that which he had written says, "...you accepted it not as the word of men, but as it actually is, the Word of God..." Peter speaks of the inspiration of Paul's writings in 2 Peter 3:15-16, where he maintains that, "...Paul also wrote to you with the wisdom that God gave him. He writes the same way in all his letters..." Earlier, in 2 Peter 1:21 Peter writes, "For prophecy never had its origin in the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along [moved] by the Holy Spirit." And then finally in Revelation 22:18,19 the writer John, referring to the book of Revelation states, "...if anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life..."
My take on this.
Bunch of guys met JC.
They wrote about it.
People believed that JC was the Son Of God.
Their writing and perosnal experience were thus , inspired by and based on personal experience with the man believed to be the son of god.
Why not revere their works as true ?
Anybody looking for some light relief from all this can head here :
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...threadid=19523