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Atheists: Can you disprove the resurrection or Jesus' existence?
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RE: Atheists:Can you disprove the resurrection or Jesus' existence?
Quote:It's plausible that a rabbi named Yeshua (what he would have been called) lived near Galilee and raised enough of a stink that the Roman Government had to crucify him, but the evidence for his miracles and resurrection outside of the Bible is non-existent.


But is it also plausible that Josephus, who mentions lots of trouble makers who were (rightfully in Josephus' view) killed by the Romans did not mention him, either?

Or that Philo, a contemporary of the so-called Jesus who wrote extensively about Jewish events in the early the 1st century AD did not mention him, either?

Or that Pliny the Elder who wrote Natural History which contains a lot of seemingly nutty folklore but no mention of a criminal coming back from the dead?

It is an argument from silence....but the silence is deafening.

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RE: Atheists:Can you disprove the resurrection or Jesus' existence? - by Minimalist - September 1, 2011 at 3:16 pm

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