(May 30, 2016 at 6:29 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote:(May 25, 2016 at 11:05 am)SteveII Wrote: You really can't understand the difference between examining if a series of events happened and the 27 sources that describe these events? Answer the question I asked: then by that standard we could never believe anything that happened in the past on any subject?
I count one extremely biased source, the bible. What are the other 26? Tacitus is out, obvious forgery, so is Josephus. And everything else is at best third or fourth hand retellings of what somebody either heard or read from a few centuries later.
Are you saying the NT is one source? That makes no sense. Your Tacitus and Josephus claims are not supported by most scholars.
Tacitus: "Most modern scholars consider the passage to be authentic..." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on...ical_value
Josephus: Most of the debate seems to be whether the mention of Jesus was altered to portray him in more favorable life. It seems to be the consensus that he was at least mentioned.