Undeceived Wrote:Then the believer has evidence in addition to faith. Suppose you read a couple small articles about Jews in Nazi territory, written by reputable sources. You then browse through The diary of Anne Frank (which has questions regarding its authenticity). Are you not more likely to believe the diary when you have supporting articles? Are you not even more likely to believe given articles by unsympathetic Nazi authors--that mention Anne Frank by name? How is it unreasonable, then, to trust the Gospels of Jesus Christ?
Let me know if I'm wrong, but are you saying that Tacitus, Pliny etc are equivalent to the Nazi articles, and the Gospels are equivalent to Anne's diary? It's a good comparison to make to get your point across, but I don't think in reality it works. What happens when you find multiple copies of Anne's work and you realised there's events that have been added that earlier copies don't have? Does the reliability of the diary rise, drop or stay the same?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
