RE: Evidence: The Gathering
August 25, 2015 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2015 at 9:07 am by Randy Carson.)
(August 25, 2015 at 8:39 am)dyresand Wrote: There is no evidence to support to judo christian god like there is no evidence for the goddess jupiter, thor, loki, kraken, big foot etc.
1. New Testament stories don't claim to be first hand accounts.
Luke 1
1 Many have undertaken to draw up an account of the things that have been fulfilled[a] among us, 2 just as they were handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses and servants of the word. 3 With this in mind, since I myself have carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I too decided to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus, 4 so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.
John 21
24 This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true.
Quote:2. The gospel the only account of jesus supposed existence contradict one another.
You mean, there was no collusion? Good, I'm glad that's settled.
It is not unusual for eyewitnesses to contradict one another on various points, and the fact that they do so does not undermine their ability to provide useful information about what they have seen. Eyewitnesses to the sinking of the Titanic disagreed about whether the ship broke in two before slipping beneath the waves. Yet they all agreed the ship did sink.
Quote:3. No first century evidence that support yeshua
You mean other than
- Matthew
- Mark
- Luke
- John
- Paul
- James
- Josephus
- Tacitus
- Mara bar Serapion
Quote:I could keep going on but jesus never existed ever.
Well, you do to tend to go on and on, but you're wrong.
Quote:I said it before ill say it again pontious pilate would have kept a record of someone named jesus and he would have been in it. Considering jesus was never in said records well put two and two together you will finally learn hey religion is a lie made up by bronze age goat herders and men looking for a way to con people.
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An argument from silence?
Quote:"Ben Witherington points out:
About Felix’s successor, Porcius Festus, very little can be said, for our sources are limited to what we find in Acts 25–26 and in Josephus, Ant. 20.182–97 and War 2.271 [The Acts of the Apostles: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary, 717].
Got that?
The sources we have about Festus are limited to Acts and a couple of passages in Josephus.
Now, Festus was an important man. He ruled the entire province of Judaea (more than just the Southern territory of Judea). He had a huge number of subjects. He’s one of the successors of Pontius Pilate. Further, he was one of the few (some say the only) good procurator that the Romans sent to Judaea.
And yet we know only a tiny amount about him." [Source]
Now, if we know almost nothing from history about important Roman officials like Pontius Pilate and Festus, why should we expect that the Romans bothered with any contemporaneous records about someone they executed as a common criminal?