(August 3, 2017 at 11:21 am)SteveII Wrote: It seems you might be going the route that any eyewitness testimony written in the first century is insufficient. If so, then in effect you are denying that any evidence is possible--because really, what other evidence could there be? Tell my why that isn't question begging.
Very simple.
If there is an entity out there that wishes me (and everyone else) to acknowledge its existence, then it should show itself to me (and everyone else)... I guess it could do it again and again, in every age... and all over the World. Certainly not beyond its claimed ability.
That such a thing has never happened is the major hint to me that there's no such thing as a god.
Clearly, the reliance on a tale from a particular region and time doesn't cut it. And not any region and time... a particular region at a time when monotheism was already present.... and receiving influences from Greece and Rome, where fabulous fictional tales had been written a few centuries earlier.
Can you factor in the psychological factor of a population to account for how a few charismatic preachers may have generated the whole tale and produced a numerous following?
