pwmartin
The Fly
to joerags:
One extrabiblical attestation to the life of Jesus:
Josephus, a Roman historian, records Jesus' life and death in a few sentences in one of his annals.
That aside, it is curious that the world's largest organized religion is based on the life of a person you claim never existed. I think the burden of proof is on you, no matter how many times you "repeat" it for us.
I've always wondered how four different authors from four different communities wound up constructing strikingly similar narratives about the life of a seemingly random itinerant preacher from the Galilean countryside all within a few decades of his death (I'm thinking of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John...and those are just the four in the Bible). Add to those the list of letters written about him even closer to his crucifixion and you've got something that needs serious attention. I'm not one that into proving the existence of God or Jesus with logic, but you have to admit that set of coincidences is extremely uncanny.
Of course, the truly Christian response to joerag's claim would not be to argue that Jesus once existed, but that he still exists now, risen from the dead!
And that's something no one would logically argue for you, joerags.
One extrabiblical attestation to the life of Jesus:
Josephus, a Roman historian, records Jesus' life and death in a few sentences in one of his annals.
That aside, it is curious that the world's largest organized religion is based on the life of a person you claim never existed. I think the burden of proof is on you, no matter how many times you "repeat" it for us.
I've always wondered how four different authors from four different communities wound up constructing strikingly similar narratives about the life of a seemingly random itinerant preacher from the Galilean countryside all within a few decades of his death (I'm thinking of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John...and those are just the four in the Bible). Add to those the list of letters written about him even closer to his crucifixion and you've got something that needs serious attention. I'm not one that into proving the existence of God or Jesus with logic, but you have to admit that set of coincidences is extremely uncanny.
Of course, the truly Christian response to joerag's claim would not be to argue that Jesus once existed, but that he still exists now, risen from the dead!
And that's something no one would logically argue for you, joerags.