Debate with a Christian

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Please cite your sources. Or it's just hearsay. Do you know how to debate? I should have asked that several pages back before we started all this. lol

In a 2011 review of the state of modern scholarship, Bart Ehrman wrote, "He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees". Richard A. Burridge states: "There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church's imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that any more". Robert M. Price does not believe that Jesus existed, but agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars. James D.G. Dunn calls the theories of Jesus' non-existence "a thoroughly dead thesis". Michael Grant (a classicist) wrote in 1977, "In recent years, 'no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus' or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary". Robert E. Van Voorst states that biblical scholars and classical historians regard theories of non-existence of Jesus as effectively refuted.

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God can do anything logically possible and anything in accordance with His nature. God cannot do "anything". That is a common misconception of divine omnipotence.

So... reading comprehension is lacking, huh?

The reasoning here is nothing less than horrid.

You essentially argue that since people have different views of who God is that therefore He does not want them to know He exists...



How does that follow? It seems to me to be a classic non-sequitur.

I'm sorry if I went too fast...
I'll give you some time until you understand it...
I won't stand and wait.

I understand that your argument fails. Maybe you would like to revise it?