| My feeling is that there wouldn't have been nearly as many apparent contradictions--the ones skeptics love to point out--if the scriptures had truly been created after the fact. Wouldn't have been a lot simpler to just edit the texts so that there weren't so many questions about, say, infant baptism, or predestination versus free will?
For me, it comes down to the eyewitnesses to the Resurrection, and the effect it had on their lives. I just can't rationalize my way through a naturalistic explanation for the sudden development of a new religion in Jerusalem based on the life of a carpenter from a nothing town in Galilee. |