RE: Evidence: The Gathering
September 15, 2015 at 4:35 pm
(This post was last modified: September 15, 2015 at 4:45 pm by Randy Carson.)
This thread serves as a repository for my thoughts on the evidence for God's existence and for Christianity as well as for discussion of this topic. The following addition is relevant to the overall understanding of the nature and role of evidence:
There are only two categories of evidence, and Christians use both types of evidence when making a case for Christianity:
Category One: Direct Evidence
Eyewitness testimony. We must recognize that cross-examination of historical witnesses is not commonly possible.
Category Two: Indirect (Circumstantial) Evidence
Everything else. This includes:
Source.
There are only two categories of evidence, and Christians use both types of evidence when making a case for Christianity:
Category One: Direct Evidence
Eyewitness testimony. We must recognize that cross-examination of historical witnesses is not commonly possible.
Category Two: Indirect (Circumstantial) Evidence
Everything else. This includes:
- the internal evidence of language, pronoun use, and frequency of names relative to the population at large
- the internal descriptions of geography, culture and politics
- the evidence of archaeology
- the early reluctant parallel descriptions offered by non-Christians and Jewish believers
- the early dating of the Gospels established indirectly
- the transmission of the Gospels found in the writings of the early Church Fathers
Source.