Why can't Christians Verify Exactly Where Jesus Was Buried?

[Aractus]

That's because it's vapid and doesn't merit serious consideration. Writing doesn't have the same evidentiary value as physical evidence because people can and do make mistakes or deliberately distort the truth -- or even invent stuff out of whole cloth, which was the point of my "Beren and Luthien" comment.

It's no surprise you don't want to address this, because at that point your house of cards will collapse.

I don't need to address it because it's a straw man argument.

Except that my standard is not arbitrary. The fact is, you're bent out of shape here because the existence of Jesus has little if any evidence outside of writings that tell us to worship him -- which is not evidence anyway, it's the claim.

Rejecting shitty evidence is not being "arbitrary". It's being sensible ... which is probably why you cannot bring yourself to doing it.

Again, you're deliberately constructing a false dichotomy. I get tired of it. The book of Joshua makes all kinds of farcical claims, however it was right in its geography of ancient Canaanite cities, many of which were discovered in the 19th-20th centuries by archaeological digs, and many of those digs were based directly on finding the locations mentioned in the Old Testament.