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Christians - What would you do if it were discovered Jesus never existed?
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RE: Christians - What would you do if it were discovered Jesus never existed?
(September 4, 2015 at 11:31 pm)Drich Wrote:
(September 4, 2015 at 1:13 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: What nonsense.  There is not a single document mentioning Jesus that was originally written in his lifetime.  But there are documents mentioning important people of that era written during the time they were alive.  So the evidence for them is far greater than the evidence for Jesus.  Yet you ignore such facts now, so we can be pretty sure you will ignore facts in the future as well.

On a related note:



I see a lot of empty and unsupported assertions concerning Christ and the historical paper trail surrounding him. Do you have anything to go on besides your word? You by not providing any citations or any other proof of any kinda means, that because you have access to anti Christian commentary we are supposed to simply take you at your 'expert' word. Maybe this is how it works where you are from, but for those who genuinely think for themselves you need to be able to provide some primary or secondary source material to support those otherwise empty words.


Are you so seriously ignorant of Christian scholarship that you need me to tell you when the books of the Bible were supposed to be written?  Just do a search for the words "New Testament dates written" (without the quotation marks) and you will get plenty of links to sites, many of which are run by Christians, giving you dates of composition.  You will there see that the entire New Testament was written many years after Jesus was supposed to have lived.  But since you are either an idiot or dishonest in your approach to this, here are some links for you, some of which are to sites run by religious people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testam...omposition

http://www.biblestudytools.com/resources...ament.html

http://www.beginningcatholic.com/when-wa...itten.html

https://carm.org/wasnt-new-testament-wri...ter-christ

Basically, all reputable scholars say that all of the books of the New Testament were written years after Jesus supposedly lived.  Even the religious ones, as you can see from a couple of the links above.  The exact dates of composition are generally not known, so there is some range commonly given, but no respectable scholar tells us that any of it was written during Jesus' lifetime.  Some, of course, try to push the dates closer to Jesus' lifetime to try to make them seem more authoritative, but most of them are not so dishonest as to try to pretend that they were actually written during Jesus' lifetime.

If you need me to tell you this, you obviously do not take Christianity very seriously.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: Christians - What would you do if it were discovered Jesus never existed? - by Pyrrho - September 5, 2015 at 12:26 pm

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