ok ed- my contention is not that atheists are usually, or of necessity , liars , or immoral, dishonest, or anything else that might be considered "wrong", but that they have no ultimate authority for doing the "right" thing.
if there is no ultimate lawgiver, who is to say what is right and wrong?.
musket has freely admitted lieing to a school to gain an admission ,and why should he not?. he only has to justify it to himself, if no one calls him to account. that indeed was the context of my previous post.

neither am I claiming that as Christians we always do the right thing, but we do know who we are ultimately accountable to.


joe- I am sure that you know that a number of harmonies of the gospels have been written. i have one called "the life of Christ in stereo" had all 4 been too closely aligned , critics would be crying collusion .
this is not to say that there are not writing conventions of the time that selected material for teaching purposes- the 3+14 geneologies of matthew come to mind- and such things may appear contradictory to the modern western critic.
but how about responses to my questions?
is there any reason, apart from a-priori assumptions, why God should not get the first day off without creating the sun first.
He after all is the source of light and life, not the sun, which he would create, and some ancients erroneously credited as a god.