(May 1, 2011 at 7:40 am)FaithNoMore Wrote: If I remember correctly Josephus wrote about Jesus in the third or fourth century long after the books of the bible had been written. He also only refers to Jesus in one lonley sentence.
Josephus was a 1st century historian. The first line on the wiki article i quoted.
This is the problem i seem to have though, there seems to be no neutral writer at the time jesus existed who catalogued his miraculous journey's and miracles.
I want to discount the bible for any of this evidence because it is a collection of many different people's writings from centuries apart and often contradicts itself. Also i have the firm belief that it is all bullshit from the start anyway.
(May 1, 2011 at 8:00 am)fr0d0 Wrote: We don't currently have any historian members. We did have one once but he was banned when subjected to racist abuse for being Irish.
You can check the balance of opinion on Wikipedia here and here if you don't want to confirm your own bias.
I'm not asking for a historian, i just want to see what evidence you have to believe jesus existed?
In terms of your belief frodo do you just take the bible's word as absolute truth? do you feel the need to have any other evidence of jesus or are the bible's writings enough for you?
I guess i am already pretty biased but that's why i wrote this thread. I want to see your best evidence for jesus's existance. I think it's highly likely he did exist but when i have often seen atheists say there is no evidence i want to see what a person like yourself has to say on the matter.
