I don't know why you seem to eager to put down other religions. Yes, the Gospels were written between forty and seventy years after the death of Jesus of Nazareth, but at least they were written down by people who actually saw the events described in them. In that respect they are miles better than the Jewish Torah, which (Orthodox views aside) was written down in even its source texts centuries after the events described in it.
How accurate the the Gospels are I don't know; but I don't get the impression they generally take liberties. But regardless of whether they did or not is irrelevant to my point. To the early adopters of Christianity, what the Gospels said is the word of Jesus, and Jesus was G-d made Man; and - at least after Paul of Tarsus had transformed Christianity from teachings intended for Jews into a religion intended for Gentile and Jew alike - would be exposed to, and consider, Jesus' teachings, as described in the Gospel, way ahead of anything in the Torah.
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Date: 2006-01-26 06:45 pm (UTC)How accurate the the Gospels are I don't know; but I don't get the impression they generally take liberties. But regardless of whether they did or not is irrelevant to my point. To the early adopters of Christianity, what the Gospels said is the word of Jesus, and Jesus was G-d made Man; and - at least after Paul of Tarsus had transformed Christianity from teachings intended for Jews into a religion intended for Gentile and Jew alike - would be exposed to, and consider, Jesus' teachings, as described in the Gospel, way ahead of anything in the Torah.