Gut: What's a perspective? It's a perspective.
Spill: Personally, I feel the 4 different perspectives (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) on Jesus' life give it more credibility than all of them matching up precisely the same. If four different people were to give an account of your life, they certainly wouldn't all be the same. Different things are observed by different people, and some things/events aren't remembered with 100% clarity. The fact that each of these accounts is different makes it highly likely they were not all written by the same person or just straight copied. Someone said Jesus is divine or He isn't--there's no other perspective. Well, okay, these four different perspectives point to His divinity in some way or another. Are there other perspectives that say He is merely a man/teacher, of course. There are also ones that will say He never existed at all. In the end, it comes down to the individual and there interpretation of the resources laid before them.
I like what you said about faith in the first spill you gave today, "what would faith be without a little faith". And I totally agree! Wouldn't it be absolutely tragic if we all one day find out that the 4 gospels(or the whole Bible) were completely made up? I mean you remember last semester in Religion in America when we learned about Scientology (the ones who use e-meters to balance their brain waves)? Well I heard that the creator of that religion (L.Ron Hubbard) completely made up that whole religion from the top of this head. It all came from that fictional book he wrote (I think it was called Dianetics). Anyways, my point is that L.Ron Hubbard did it so why can't the writers of the gospels? I'm guessing the only thing I can think of is back then, they were way more serious and didn't do so much playing around. Plus I wonder if anyone was educated enough to come up with something like that. I can't help but laugh about it all. What if?!
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