RE: How to Defend The Historical Jesus
November 30, 2018 at 11:10 pm
(This post was last modified: November 30, 2018 at 11:14 pm by Cherub786.)
(November 30, 2018 at 11:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Did Socrates come back from the dead to atone for your sins?
BTW, Socrates appears in the writings of Plato and Xenophon and Aristophanes wrote him into two of his plays and made him the butt of the jokes.
Since all Socrates ever did was run his mouth that is sufficient.
You're missing the point. Fanciful claims made about a historical person is not evidence that that historical person could not have existed. We are discussing whether a historical Jesus existed, not if he performed supernatural miracles or was resurrected from the dead.
No one doubts the Roman emperor Vespasian was a historical figure who actually existed.
25 years after he died, the historian Tacitus wrote about him and stated that he miraculously healed someone from blindness and someone who was lame.
Now I suppose we should doubt the existence of the historical Vespasian because he had "magical powers"
