jimboston wrote:When facts don’t agree with orthodox christian views, typical response… “Well that’s not REALLY important.”
I mean it never occurs to Christians…
1) They claim the Bible is the “Word of God” or at the very least the authors were inspired by God.
2) They claim God is Omniscient and therefore infallible.
3) A factual error or inconsistency is found in the Bible or in their orthodox teachings.
4) They then claim that “well that’s not important anyway.”
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5) Never occurs to ask, well if there’s one error or inconsistency in supposedly infallible teachings;
wouldn’t that make one at least question the rest of the teachings?
I’m not specifically referring to the date of Christ’s birth here, as that’s not in the Bible.
I’m talking about the concept of critical thinking in general.
That said… since we are talking about dates… how come the two largest sects of Christianity can’t even agree in the date of the Resurrection of Christ?
As I already said, it is not important. If it WERE important, it would have been recorded. Neither the exact date of the Birth or Resurrection of Jesus is not important. And there is the matter of which Calendar is used and how to translate or convert that date, even if it were recorded.
I doubt Jesus talked about his birthday. Jesus did not come to earth for his Birthday to be celebrated on the EXACT date each year. I know of people born many years later and their birthdates were not recorded. That recording of exact birthdate for most folks likely did not occur until after Gutenberg invented the printing press. We do not even KNOW Gutenberg's birthday.
In fact, celebrating of birthdays in the USA did not become important for the most folks until about 1860 in the USA.
Thus all of jimb's arguments here are invalid, AGAIN. jimb needs a lesson on critical thinking.
jimb wants AGAIN to make a mountain out of a point of MINUTIA. jimb is good at that, dealing with minutia.