Any Evidence For A Historical Jesus?

[radorth]

OK, everyone, continuing our game of Logical Fallacy Bingo.

So far everyone should have checked off

Appeal to Authority
Poisoning the Well

I assumed since you do it, it was OK.

Beyond the fact that this is a false accusation, as we've already reviewed.

Announcer: "Tu Quoque"

Well do you admit you used two logical fallacies to make your theories work? Argument from silence and "false in one part false in all"?

Announcer: "Argumentum Ad Neuseum! Argumentum Ad Neuseum!"

Well sure if you want to die in your sins over "minutiae" like who rolled the stone away.

Announcer: "Appeal to Fear! Appeal to Fear!"

And I don't think any Gospel writer lied. I think they reported what they heard with integrity and I have no reason to think they did not. Did they hear wrong sometimes? No doubt.

Announcer: "Argument from Incredulity!"

No I just know that I have experienced what Jesus promised, after not a few stumbles, and being anything but a Christian seems childish and irrational to me now. Anyone who doubts the grace of the Christian God hasn't met me.

Announcer: "Appeal to Emotion! Appeal to Emotion!"

I think that is irrelevant. Having spoken in tongues and visited the third heaven (I believe0 without even seeking either, I know there is a God.

Announcer: "Appeal to batshittery! Appeal to Batshittery!"

Which does not mean they approved of it. Actually at the same time your man Voltaire was writing that slavery was necessary to the economy, many Quakers and most Methodists were condemning it.

Announcer: "Poisoning the Well" (already ticked off)

That's the proven problem with atheist beliefs. You have to have a police state to go with them because people have no other restraint, no internal policeman.

Announcer: "Appeal to Consequences! Appeal to Consequences!"

Anyone want to call "bingo" yet?

3 out of 8 if we make a cynical stretch. Not bad. Interesting that you would shoot the messenger immediately after hearing what Jesus has already saved you from via men like, Whitefield, Locke, Newton and Bacon-- all Christians. Not to mention putting the atheist murderers of 60 million innocent people out of business.

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radorth, from the past few pages I've gathered that you wanted DeistPaladin to name a contradiction within scripture. I thought I would give this a go. I want to do this in a particular way though; by asking you a theological question. Here we go: is there an unforgivable sin?

Yes, at least one, which only religious people are known to have commiitted.

I think I know what's coming, but go ahead.