(March 15, 2011 at 12:04 pm)theophilus Wrote: Our modern methods of communication didn't exist then so no matter what he did no one outside of the area he lived in would have heard of him during his lifetime. If there were records by local historians many of them would have been destroyed by the Roman destruction of Jerusalem.
Thanks Theo for bringing up one apology I forgot to mention. I call this one the Jesus-of-the-Gaps apology. Also see the "absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence" line.
Too bad it's not supported by the Bible.
Quote:Matthew
4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.
4:24 And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
4:25 And there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee, and from Decapolis, and from Jerusalem, and from Judaea, and from beyond Jordan.
Hardly an unusual example. Read the Gospels cover to cover and you see that Jesus built a ministry that was as famous as it was controversial.
The ministry alone, even if it wasn't accompanied by real miracles, should have been worth a mention by someone at the time.
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"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
... -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
... -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
