Becki Claims "500 witnesses" is a later interpolation, not present in our earliest and best manuscripts. (Moreover do you believe everything you read?)
Source(s):
Prof. Bart Ehrman """
Becki if you did any actual reading into the historicity of the new testament then you would know that what ehrman says about the 500 witnesses isnt an interpolation, but erhman asserts its an interpolation. There is no evidence of that at all. The only evidence ehrman provides is that because it isnt in the other gospels therefore it is wrong. That is totally retarded. No wonder your an atheist Becki, you cant use common sense. If anything this is another powerful testiment to the truthfullness of the gospel writers that each were allowed to write what they wanted on their experience of the risen Christ.
http://www.christiancadre.org/member_contrib/cp_interpolation.html
The 500 Brethren
In addition to arguing that 1 Corinthians 15:3-11 is incompatible with Galatians 2, Dr. Price argues that the appearance of Jesus to the 500 recounted in v. 6 is evidence of an interpolation because it is not recounted in any of the Gospels. He asks, “If the claim of 500 witnesses were early tradition, can anyone explain its total absence from the gospel tradition?”18
For Dr. Price, the answer is obviously, “No.” But this reported appearance has two features that distinguish it from the other appearances reported in the Gospels. The "500 brethren" are not named and the emphasis is on many of them still being alive. Some commentators have observed that the Gospels, written decades later, had less interest in recounting anonymous appearances -- especially when consulting those witnesses was no longer feasible. Additionally, some scholars believe that the emphasis given to particular resurrection appearances in particular Gospels are meant to emphasize the leadership and authority of those leaders. Thus, Peter for example had an ongoing influence on the early church and the resurrection appearance to him was retained in the Gospels. Obviously, this purpose would not be served by referring to the anonymous 500.
In closing my lightly mentally deranged becki, there is no evidence that the 500 withnesses is an interpolation added later. Remember that your taking the word of Bart Ehrman, the same guy who says that because there are over 200,000 errors in the bible that we can never know the true gospel message, what Bart ehrman doesnt tell his retarded and naive audience is that almost none of those 200,000 erros effects the foundation of the biblical message at all.
Ehrman makes claims like these to sell his books (make money) but when he is pressed about it by professional theologians he admits that these errors dont effect the gospel message at all, they are simply grammatical and spelling errors.
Becki, do youself a favor and do some actual reading before you regurgitate something about the bible. It makes it too easy for me to make a fool out of you lol.
And imagodei, the atheists claim of extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence is totally BS. If something happened and it has been established as happening, even if it happens just once, is good enough to qualify us to believe in that evidence.
One of the best evidences I use is the shroud of turin.
I challenged becki to an email debate on the shroud of turin right now.
But me and becki both know that she wont email me about it because she is too insecure about her atheism to have her worldview challenged. Almost all atheists are intellectual cowards.
The last atheist that accepted my challenge on the shroud is no longer an atheist, but an agnostic with future Christian possibilities.
ImagoDei, I applaud you on putting up with these atheists here, as you can see their lack of critical thinking has proven a point that medical science is starting to find out, namely that atheism is a sort of light mental illness which doesnt allow them to spot purpose in the world the way a mentally normally wired person can.
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2010/05/29/people-with-aspergers-less-likely-to-see-purpose-behind-the-events-in-their-lives/
In a second experiment, Heywood and Bering compared 27 people with Asperger’s with 34 neurotypical people who are atheists. The atheists, as expected, often invoked anti-teleological responses such as “there is no reason why; things just happen.” The people with Asperger’s were significantly less likely to offer such anti-teleological explanations than the atheists, indicating they were not engaged in teleological thinking at all. (The atheists, in contrast, revealed themselves to be reasoning teleologically, but then they rejected those thoughts.)
Torpex, if elvis was making appearances to crowds of reliable people then why cant he be alive. There is a difference between witnesses and reliable witnesses. The 500 witnesses that saw Jesus were actually Jews who were considered hostile witnesses and therefore more reliable then most witnesses. Remember that in 1st century jerusalem almost none of the jews believed in a bodily resurrection, but a spiritual one. This is all the more reason to accept the part about the 500 witnesses. Anotehr damaging part of the gospel message to atheists is the fact that the apostles were willing to embarress themselves enough to speak the truth about the women finding Christ's tomb empty first. If they wanted to lie they never would have said this because a woman's testimony in 1st century jersualem was worth lower then dirt. You seem to need to do some critical thinking my friend.
Poldi- wrong again atheists dont just disbelieve in God's existence, they hate his existence so your ilk has a bias against God which tells me deep down inside that atheists dont want God to exist and will not take any evidence for his existence. Atheism is more a dogmatic cult and an emotional worldview then an intellectual position.
Like I said we can discuss teh shroud of turin if you like and ill prove to you how your atheistic beliefs are more emotional and dogmatic then intellectual and rational.