You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing that Jesus made a pretty lousy apologist.

Rachel Held Evans
You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing...
You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing...
You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing...
You can't get too far into the Gospels without noticing...
About This Quote

This quote from comedian Greg Proops is a humorous statement on the lackluster nature of the Bible as a source of evidence for God. The Bible is a collection of stories that were placed together by scholars centuries after they were written. Out of the thousands of books written during Jesus’s lifetime, only a handful have survived. We have copies of Jesus’s teachings, but we have to piece them together from various sources, making them less reliable than any other source.

One thing we know for sure is that Jesus was a man who was clearly affected by his environment and times he lived in. In spite of these shortcomings, Christianity still holds it as one of the most important pieces of literature ever written. The fact that it survived can be credited to its ability to integrate itself into other cultures and languages where it has been passed down over time.

Source: Evolving In Monkey Town: How A Girl Who Knew All The Answers Learned To Ask The Questions

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