Comments on: Copies Don’t Mean Credibility http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2006/11/16/copies-dont-mean-credibility/ The daily...weekly...occasional journal by someone you don't know. Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: jennifer http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2006/11/16/copies-dont-mean-credibility/comment-page-1/#comment-2120 jennifer Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:36:58 +0000 http://www.celticbear.com/weblog/2006/11/16/copies-dont-mean-credibility/#comment-2120 I agree 100%. Coming from a large circle of apologists, however, I know what their argument will be: Why would someone devote his entire life to perfectly copying every jot and tittle of a story that wasn't true? This argument, of course, has many problems. One, believing it to be true doesn't make it true. Two, many, many fictional stories have been copied for eons because people simply love the story. Etc... But Mr. Taylor has hit the nail on the head. Fundamentalists believe the text and the message are one and the same. I agree 100%. Coming from a large circle of apologists, however, I know what their argument will be: Why would someone devote his entire life to perfectly copying every jot and tittle of a story that wasn’t true? This argument, of course, has many problems. One, believing it to be true doesn’t make it true. Two, many, many fictional stories have been copied for eons because people simply love the story. Etc…

But Mr. Taylor has hit the nail on the head. Fundamentalists believe the text and the message are one and the same.

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