RE: Any Evidence For A Historical Jesus?
August 23, 2012 at 8:55 pm
(This post was last modified: August 23, 2012 at 8:58 pm by Cyberman.)
(August 23, 2012 at 8:49 pm)Undeceived Wrote: You don't think 1st century NT writers would be so stupid as to collaborate on a city name which didn't exist, do you?
You don't think the word Nazareth refers to a place name, do you?
(August 23, 2012 at 8:49 pm)Undeceived Wrote:(August 23, 2012 at 8:19 pm)Stimbo Wrote:The point is that what people say about so-and-so's activities has nothing to do with whether the individual existed.(August 23, 2012 at 8:19 pm)Undeceived Wrote: People say Elvis came back from the dead. Does that mean he wasn't a real person?People say all sorts of shit. Does that mean you have to believe everything they say is true until they prove it isn't?
The point is not whether Elvis was a real person; the point is do you automatically and unquestionably believe people who tell you that he rose from the dead? And if not, why not?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
