(August 5, 2015 at 6:44 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(August 5, 2015 at 1:15 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: Is it solely because of the supernatural claims made (his miracles and resurrection) that people dismiss his existence in history?That seems to be the criteria of the atheists. As part of your list you forgot Socrates. No one doubts that he existed, but there's much less evidence for his existence than Jesus.
Ignorant? Or lying for Jesus? I have to ask because your statement is patently false and is a common canard lobbed into the discussion by the faithful. There is plenty written about Socrates, most notably by Aristophanes, Plato and Xenophon. All of them knew Socrates, Xenophon and Plato when Socrates was older, and Aristophanes when he was younger. These are just three and I'm pretty sure count as contemporary.
What you may be mistaken by is what's known as 'the Socratic problem'. The problem isn't whether or not Socrates existed, but the inability to separate myth from historical fact. Unlike with Jesus, there's no misapprehension about the problem; it's openly recognized and discussed.
