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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:41 am
What do you mean by literary evidence?
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:42 am
You are misreading the Bible.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:44 am
Quote:There are no sources contemporary for anyone so why do you accept people existed in antiquity except for Jesus?
But there ARE contemporary source for other figures. For example, Augustus. We have edicts that Augustus wrote. We have letters he wrote to other people. We have letters that people wrote to him. We have coins with his face and name that were minted during his lifetime.
In all of the purported 33 years of Jesus' lifetime, he isn't not ever mentioned in a single surviving source.
How much more do you need?
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:47 am
I'm off for sleep, savedwheat. Pray hard, and I'll let you know in the morning if my eye has grown back.
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RE: Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?
December 23, 2013 at 5:47 am
None of those edicts are contemporary. They are written hundreds of years later. Whereas the NT was completed by 70 AD except for Revelation 95 AD just a few decades later holding the highest of standards.