RE: Why the religious will never admit you won the argument (and why they don't care)
June 21, 2016 at 12:29 pm
(June 18, 2016 at 1:47 pm)Veritas_Vincit Wrote:(June 18, 2016 at 9:03 am)SteveII Wrote:
1. The contradiction of the gospels are minor and expected. If there were no contradictions that would be evidence against them being true. Most scholars (including non-Christian) believe that Jesus existed, was baptized, and was crucified. The biggest piece of evidence that atheist constantly ignore is the fact there was a thriving church all across the Roman Empire within 20 years of Jesus who understood the claims of Jesus to be true--before the NT was even written. But that really doesn't matter because you said "obviously untrue". There could have been any other historical event with NO written evidence and you would have not used the phrase "obviously untrue". What did you mean?
I would agree there is a good chance that at least one Jesus character existed, actually there are accounts of many very similar legendary preachers and saviours around at the time. But does that mean what he said was true? No. Does it mean he was the son of a God? No - and first you'd have to demonstrate that there is a God. Mormonism and Scientology spread like wildfire, does that make them true? No, they are both crazy cults.
So, you are backing off your "obviously untrue"? Do you realize you are arguing in a circle? The NT is not evidence that God exists because you didn't prove that God exists!!
