RE: Can God be seen in the maths?
July 12, 2017 at 9:05 am
(This post was last modified: July 17, 2017 at 10:21 am by Mister Agenda.)
Dropship Wrote:Mister Agenda Wrote:
..If you've got Roman army garrison records of interacting with Jesus, that would be the strongest evidence for his existence ever discovered..
Maybe we should think "politics" and "shredder" to explain the scarcity of official records?
When christianity began snowballing in popularity after Jesus's execution, the Jewish priests and the Romans probably said -
"Oops better not let on it was us who killed him, quick shred all the documents implicating us or we'll have a Jesusgate scandal on our hands. Let's airbrush him out of history and start hassling christians, and people will soon quickly forget about him"
That is what is known as an ad hoc explanation for absence of evidence and doesn't make the slightest difference in the case for the existence of historical Jesus. And I say that as someone who leans towards there having been a rabbi named Yeshua being the basis of the Gospel stories.
As an aside, the Romans kept plenty of records that didn't put them in a good light. And Jesus was claimed to be 'big' in the stories whose authors want you to believe he was real and the son of or incarnation of God. It's another claim, not evidence at all.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.