(December 8, 2011 at 6:13 pm)padraic Wrote: The correct answer is,well yes,since ask,there are shitloads of evidence for the the existence of an historical Jesus,starting with The new Testament. Same thing for the existence of gods; shitloads.I know what you mean, but I think you misunderstood what I'm getting at. I don't mean evidence for any divine miracles; I meant is there any - maybe I shouldn't have put evidence - mention of a figure who may have gone by the name of Jesus, preferably accounted by some historian alive at the time.
BUT,what there is NOT, for either, is ANY credible evidence or ANY proof.
'Evidence' is NOT synonymous with 'proof'
Absence of evidence is indeed evidence of absence,but not necessarily proof of absence. It IS a fairly reliable indicator,and is often used in science in that sense...
If there are accounts, I know, that this does not prove the claims of the Bible in any way; it isn't proof.
Thanks for the accounts shown