(October 11, 2018 at 11:06 am)SteveII Wrote:(October 11, 2018 at 10:51 am)Grandizer Wrote: Ok, I'll give one myself. Alexander the Great was conceived in a miraculous manner, according to this ~historical~ work:
http://www.livius.org/sources/content/pl...alexander/
Why should we not take this to be true?
Off the top of my head: Plutarch is not attesting to the events he writes about. In his defense it was 400 years earlier.
So...that's actually 401 reasons.
But if you check the work, he refers to first-hand testimonies surrounding Alexander the Great's birth.
Exactly how the authors of the Gospels referred to others' testimonies of Jesus' birth.