(December 31, 2012 at 5:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote: In order for jesus to "return" it means he would have had to be here at least once before.
Other than your fantasies what have you got to substantiate that position?
Well many of the people we take for granted have as much evidence for existing as Jesus or even less, you don't really need me to help you find the truth of that question. This type of debate was very common in the past so much so that someone printed a very famous proof that Napoleon was a myth just to expose the pointlessness of the debate. A quick take on the book http://www.tektonics.org/lp/nappy.html.
If I were an Athiest the more interesting and possibly honest question would be prove he raised from the dead as you say?
but I won't go into that because we couldn't really go anywhere because we wouldn't have a common ground or language to discuss it as by necessity it would be a debate that demands concrete facts and of we would go in circles again. Though again there are plenty of good and much more intelligent people than me that can answer the question very eloquently that would be easy to track down on the net if you really wanted an answer.