Quote: and even then, it's still quite difficult to make a case from silence.
No it isn't. Not in this case because we haven't decided that we NEED the TF to be TRUE so you can pump some air into your deflated historical godboy.
I agree that there is no convincing you because you do not want to be convinced and if fucking jesus came down here, smacked you in the mouth, and said "it's not real, asshole" you still wouldn't buy it. This is your problem. Not ours.
No jesus freak writer before Eusebius ever heard of it. Yet, when Eusebius announced it ( TA-DAH! LOOKY HERE!!!) it was in all its glory not any watered down version which still would have solved Origen's problem better than what he was forced to do in the absence of the TF. That's okay, RR. You are very limited by your book. Perhaps you should put it down and read something else?
