Does "Only God forgive sins" necessitate that Jesus be God?

[steve7150]

jriccitelli wrote: And I would agree with Matt’s post, noting that none of the Gospels were understood in a vacuum.



How can you know that? It's impossible.








You can know because there are numerous references to the OT connecting Jesus with either prophecy or fulfillment of statements of OT writers. Also Mark has a lot of little details that hint it may have been written contemporaneously with Jesus or at least notes were taken by an eye witness and it was finished later.

[morbo3000]

Ok. So it is a theory then. With the evidence you listed. I understand what you mean then.

[steve7150]

Ok. So it is a theory then. With the evidence you listed. I understand what you mean then.









Well i guess what one person calls theory another person (me) calls the weight of the evidence.

[morbo3000]

I respect that.