(December 1, 2010 at 11:15 am)chatpilot Wrote: Chapabel, can you say oral traditions? Also, it's nice that you mentioned those so called 500 witnesses mentioned in the scriptures who supposedly witnessed Jesus ascension up into the clouds. Not one of them even wrote about Jesus, in fact Jesus himself did not write a single word himself that is found in your bible. Everything that is written there are second, third, or fourth person accounts ad infinitum. Basically you are believing what someone else said Jesus said. Also, you said Paul was an eyewitness of the resurrected Jesus which is in the scriptures as well, supposedly while he was traveling on the road to Damascus. It's interesting that none of the others that were there wrote or even mentioned this event so here is my question, were they also illiterate like the other 500 witnesses or was this just a coincidence?
It's interesting to note also that none of the historians of the alleged time when Jesus conducted his ministry around 30 -33 CE even bothered to write one word about him. He was supposedly raising the dead, healing incurable diseases and maladies so much so that he drew the attention of the authorities, yet not one historian bothered to write a single word about this "great" man claiming to be the son of God.
The 500 witnesses may not have confirmed what Paul wrote, but neither did any of them deny what he wrote. The same applies to those traveling with Paul. None of them refuted his claim. And BTW, yes, most of the people at the time were illiterate.
Remember also that silence is not evidence. Just because no secular historian wrote about Jesus at the time proves nothing. If silence is evidence then the silence of opposition against Jesus must be accepted as well.
