RE: Do Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Evidence?
August 3, 2017 at 1:13 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2017 at 1:16 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 3, 2017 at 11:41 am)SteveII Wrote:(August 2, 2017 at 8:33 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The tax code is great evidence for the fact that taxes exist.
You're getting closer--I can see where you are going with this: The tax code NT is great evidence for the fact that taxes the supernatural exists.
No, it isn't, because while writing is mundane, the claim that the supernatural exists isn't.
By your logic, Hogwarts is a real school and Harry Potter is a gifted young man indeed.
(August 3, 2017 at 11:41 am)SteveII Wrote: You asked "Can you show me one other contemporaneous record aside from the Bible which asserts that JC was divine?" I pointed out that your question was malformed.
Now you pivot to "one story". Wouldn't it be cause for concern if all these books told us more than "one story"? I think it's more convincing that it is "one story".
A more parsimonious explanation is that they are retellings (I'm thinking of the Gospels in particular.) That is not sufficient to be evidence because, again, anyone can write a story, and anyone can then retell it.
(August 3, 2017 at 11:41 am)SteveII Wrote: Not accepting the eyewitness claims in the NT is fine--I don't find that an unreasonable position. However, your misconceptions and fringe theories that I marked above is just that--misconceptions and fringe theories with no real evidence.
Uh, no. You clearly don't understand, and I am not emotionally invested in changing your mind. I don't count your opinion as valuable.
