No, belief is not "Good enough." "Good enough" never is.
Its all contained within the record revealed in the Holy Scriptures. In order to comprehend the answer that you seek you must 1st read the information freely transmitted to man from God through the Holy Spirit of Truth. All scripture is inspired by God. (1 Tim. 3:16). No one can make you read this information, but it does exist.
Do you have Biblical evidence of such?
It's is oblique. The recognition by Gabriel that she was full of grace. Lk 1:28.
Just as everyone that attempts to discredit the scriptures ..........you provide nothing but parroted secular gossip with no objective evidence to support it. According to your logic...........or lack thereof...........no one can defend themselves when accused. Of course the Bible can defend itself as truth, until YOU PROVE that its not via objective facts in evidence.
Evidence was produced through documented history that proved that as early as 50AD there were copies of the Gospels in existence. Through Evidence provided by enemies of Christianity. Roman historians such as Tacitus, Suetonius, Pliny the younger...etc., then of course you have the Jewish Historians and the works of "Mishnah" and the "Talmud".......all in existence centuries before any Council of Nicaea in the 4th century. Simply because the Holy Scriptures found in the New Testament were not canonized (that bound 66 books total into a single format that included both the old and new testament books), does not mean that the scriptures did not exist.. Negative logic, i.e., a logical fallacy. The process used to bind the canon is the same process used today in modern criminology.......its called comparative textual and contextual analysis.
In Fact there are more copies of the new testament manuscripts in existence than all the secular works promoted by human secularism in our (wink, wink) institutes of higher learning (cough, cough)......Homer, etc.,
A logical fallacy..........your dog bits and must be put down, so all dogs of that breed must be put down?
How "convincing"............no one in court is allowed to defend themselves. Sounds kinda FASCIST to me.
Simply prove one word wrong? Easy peasy.
Its science you should attempt it sometime.
To many the Bible would indicate that Christ was the only sinless being to walk the earth and the only one perfect enough to perform the atonement.It's is oblique. The recognition by Gabriel that she was full of grace. Lk 1:28.
It's what the early Christians believed. Many works mention that Mary gave birth to Jesus without pain which was a artifact of original sin. Ascension of Isaiah 11 [A.D. 70], Odes of Solomon 19 [A.D. 80].
It is a belief that was come to be believed. Much like the belief that Christ was fully human and fully God at the same time and the Assumption of Mary.
This explains it better than I could.
What the Early Church Believed: Mary’s Immaculate Nature
The early Christians taught that Mary received a distinctive blessings in order to make her a more fitting mother for Christ and the prototypical Christian.www.catholic.com
Jesus was a very insightful man, but even all of his great knowledge was captive to the times he existed.
Then you can be the one to tell Jesus his mother wasn't without sin.
That is there problem...lol
Its not up to "I" to prove anything.........as the one attempting to accuse and prosecute you must prove that the text in question is not based upon TRUTH. Again you have the mule attempting to push the plow. There are countless evidences that prove that Christian manuscripts existed from the 1st century forward. A Canon is not the subject of writing anything, its simply a scientific method of combining the existing manuscripts consisting of many parts and pieces into a singularly bond work of different books as based upon book, chapter and verse.......and this is accomplished by a scientific method still in use today, its called Comparative Contextual Analysis. In other words.........they compare the text they are investigating and with the actual historical record from different sources.
Its not up to "I" to prove anything.........as the one attempting to accuse and prosecute you must prove that the text in question is not based upon TRUTH. Again you have the mule attempting to push the plow. There are countless evidences that prove that Christian manuscripts existed from the 1st century forward. A Canon is not the subject of writing anything, its simply a scientific method of combining the existing manuscripts consisting of many parts and pieces into a singularly bond work of different books as based upon book, chapter and verse.......and this is accomplished by a scientific method still in use today, its called Comparative Contextual Analysis. In other words.........they compare the text they are investigating and with the actual historical record from different sources.
Examples of those different sources that prove the 1st century existence of Christianity and its author Jesus Christ.
A few Hostile historians/witnesses to Christianity and Jesus existing in the 1st century. Tacitus (56AD-117AD) Suetonius (120AD), Pliny the Younger (110AD)......these are but a few examples of actual historical individuals who were openly hostile to Christianity but still provided evidence that Christianity as defined in the New Testament, along with its founder, Christ Jesus were real and historical.........not some myth made up by the Roman Empire centuries later. Its true that Rome corrupted Christianity in an attempt to use it as a tool of conquest by religious decree......but that does not prove that the New Testament was written by the Empire.
Point number 1: The New Testament Greek Text has been authenticated. There are 3 surviving classes of evidences by which the original text is reconstructed from these fragmented examples of manuscripts. THE CURRENT NUMBER OF GREEK MANUSCRIPTS CONTAINING ALL OR PORTIONS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT TEXT now stands at 5,874. This number of New Testament manuscripts far exceed anything that has been found to date for any other ancient or classical authorships.....such as Homer....etc.,
2 The time between the original writings of the New Testament and known copies was very brief as far as history goes.......thus the ease in researching recent history and using a comparative analysis as a source of calibrating a time frame. This scientific process indeed found errors that were existing with some of the copies, but the errors were verified to be minor mistakes in transferring the text from one copy to the next......in the early days after the Christ, all copies were drafted by hand via the use of torch or candle light. But this also proves that none of the contextual subject matter and DOCTRINE was ever lost from the original manuscripts. Errors are easily spotted depending upon the context and subject matter of the passages in question.
What? Are we to believe that YOU know more about history than the individuals who actually lived during the time period in question? You have been parroting to many secular web sites with their supposed shopping list of supposed lies found in the scriptures........yet the scriptures still stand and are selling better than any other book in world history......there are more copies of the Holy Bible than any other literary works that exist. While Christianity has swallowed up over 1/3 of the worlds total population.
But its the 93% of the world population that believes in a God creation in one form or another that are crazy wrong ..........its the less than 7% who believe in NOTHING are correct as they are just to smart for the average person. Have you asked yourself.......if you believe in nothing....what does that say about your life, as nothing is worthless. Misery love company?
One excuse is as good as another. Truth is often "to much to respond to.......".
