Atheist who is having a crisis of faith

[Foxaèr]

An atheist wouldn't be striving so hard to find faith, just saying.

[emilsein]

I'm just asking questions.

[Foxaèr]

No, you're not.

You're striving to prove your point by all means.

[Succubus]

Thallus wrote a history of the eastern Mediterranean world since the Trojan War. Thallus wrote his regional history in about AD 52.6 Although his original writings have been lost, he is specifically quoted by Julius Africanus, a renowned third century historian. Africanus states, ‘Thallus, in the third book of his histories, explains away the darkness as an eclipse of the sun—unreasonably as it seems to me.’ Apparently, Thallus attempted to ascribe a naturalistic explanation to the darkness during the crucifixion.  So Thallus must've lived in the area at the time, right? So he's writing from memory

I see you finally got his name right. Read this and get back to us.

[madog]

I'm just asking questions.

Might be easier to ask your God for a better book

[Brian37]

I'm just asking questions.

Might be easier to ask your God for a better book

There is no such thing as an invisible super cognition, but yea.

I agree. Cant argue a "perfect" and all powerful being, who'd you think would want all humans on the same page, but allows all these different and conflicting writings. There is no way I'd hire such a being to run a bicycle factory. The bikes would end up with squid for spokes, and the competing unions would murder each other over their different assembly manuals and then blame them for mess he allowed.

[Succubus]

I'm just asking questions.

Evidently you have no idea what that statement means to the likes of us.

[emilsein]

Thallus wrote a history of the eastern Mediterranean world since the Trojan War. Thallus wrote his regional history in about AD 52.6 Although his original writings have been lost, he is specifically quoted by Julius Africanus, a renowned third century historian. Africanus states, ‘Thallus, in the third book of his histories, explains away the darkness as an eclipse of the sun—unreasonably as it seems to me.’ Apparently, Thallus attempted to ascribe a naturalistic explanation to the darkness during the crucifixion.  So Thallus must've lived in the area at the time, right? So he's writing from memory

I see you finally got his name right. Read this and get back to us.

That's pretty interesting. So basically we now have nobody but Josephus and even he's sketchy and wrote nothing of the darkness myth. If these Christian apologestics were mucking around with facts and changing things to fit their narrative, why didn't they go way farther and get scribes and just make up way more to sale the Christ?

[emilsein]

Thallus wrote a history of the eastern Mediterranean world since the Trojan War. Thallus wrote his regional history in about AD 52.6 Although his original writings have been lost, he is specifically quoted by Julius Africanus, a renowned third century historian. Africanus states, ‘Thallus, in the third book of his histories, explains away the darkness as an eclipse of the sun—unreasonably as it seems to me.’ Apparently, Thallus attempted to ascribe a naturalistic explanation to the darkness during the crucifixion.  So Thallus must've lived in the area at the time, right? So he's writing from memory

I see you finally got his name right. Read this and get back to us.

So you think Africanus made up Thallus? They just needed a fall guy who could say he saw it.

[emilsein]

So if Thallus was bogus, then what about Josephus and his writings of Martydorm?