Evidence: The Gathering

[AtheistAspie]

None of your "facts" constitute real evidence.  You cannot use quotes from a book we believe to be a work of complete fiction (the bible) as evidence for the existence of a man whom we believe to be fictitious.  That's like saying that the giant from Jack and the Beanstalk is a real person, because it said he was in the story.  As for the idea of a person's "coming to know god" being evidence of his existence, this is completely laughable.  If an individual with schizophrenia has a hallucination about a talking purple monkey, should we take that person's claim that he has a relationship with the talking monkey as evidence that the monkey is real?  You seem to have a difficult time ascertaining what facts actually are.  A fact would be someone going to Jesus's tomb and finding a skeleton, extracting DNA from the bone (very difficult procedure), and matching the alleles from the genes within the DNA to a blood lineage that we have proven is absolutely, definitively, the bloodline of Jesus.  Even this fact wouldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the skeleton in the cave was Jesus, it just proves that he had a lineage, and that he, or someone related to him, died in a cave.