The issue is not nearly that simple. You have a Person born in Bethlehem that was predicted to be born some 500 years earlier. Micah the prophet spoke of one whose goings were from eternity, who would come a ruler of Israel.
Now this scripture was so familiar to the experts in the Hebrew Bible that when Herod asked where any possible "born king" of divine origin was to be located, they were able to say "Bethlehem, that is where."
Now Jesus was an extraordinary Person. He could not have orchestrated His own birth that way. That is unless He truly is the pre-existing and ever existing eternal God.
The prophecies concerning Him giving Himself as a atoneing sacrifice for sinners came in centries earlier. How can I say that Isaiah 53 does not expound on the ministry of Jesus ?
How could He have arranged for His own crucifixion the way it happened in fulfillment of the prophecies ? How could He orchestrate these details to make it seem that He was the target of so many Old Testament prophecies.
If you're not familiar with these prophecies it may be easy to have the skeptical ignorance of bliss. Coincidence is not a strong argument.
So we have in the New Testament much more then a situation of "It is authoritative because it says it is authoritative."
You have far too many details outside of the control of the Man which lined up in such a way as to argue for fulfillment of prophecy by God.
You see, that is one of the advantages of having a book which took 1,600 years to complete. It can build up a track record of prophetic fulfillment.
There's this group of people. They are a rather large group. They worship the same god you do: the god of abraham. Except for one thing: they don't buy the whole jesus is god spiel. Perhaps you know what group of people I am talking about? Now that you do, how do you propose to tell me how you are so certain you haven't been tricked by some trickster to worship some false god (jeebus, in this case)?
(don't mind if I skip to the end of your sermon)
You seem to me to misunderstand many things I wrote here over the years.
Oh no, you've been quite clear in your hatred for yourself and your fellow man. You've made it crystal clear that you wake up every day and grovel for forgiveness at the feet of your invisible friend because you are a piece of shit because you think that's what he told you.
mindless trash talk about Dawkins, Hitchens and Darwin
You wanna know something funny? You will really laugh at this one. They don't dictate anyones moral compass. That's hilarious, innit?
"What can be asserted without proof, can be dismissed without proof."-Hitch.
™ Version 4.2