Undeceived Wrote:I'm glad we have finally agreed on the nature of evidence and can begin examining it. For starters, do you consider Livy, Tacitus and Suetonius reliable sources? Or maybe I should ask, do you consider any 1st century historical account unreliable apart from the Bible?
History, by its very nature, will always have a degree of unreliability because it's coming from people with certain biases and at times even agendas. I guess to answer your question in a nutshell though, I'd say I trust most documents that were definitely written by the true author and it's not a pseudo-graphic work of that author.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
