tackattack wrote: "How do you explain 40+ writers in the bible alone, with more physical shreds of documentation than yours for Livy and conclude that Jesus emphatically doesn't exist, yet Livy does?"
What you left out in the above statement is that those so called 40+ writers had several things that worked against them. The first is that they were all alleged believers or followers of the Christian religion. None of them knew Jesus personally and so all the accounts we have of him are 2,3,4 person accounts of him. Not to mention that those so called 40+ authors you boast about are anonymous authors and many of those books were not even written by the names that were attached to them.
The synoptic gospels which are supposed to be a sort of biography of Jesus were not introduced till about 40 years after his alleged death, when they were first known they were anonymous works with no authors names attached to them, this did not happen until the middle of the second century. It is my opinion that Jesus was a sort of after thought due to the length of time it took to present his story and the fact that the epistles were much earlier works. This assessment does not include the fact that there are many inconsistencies in the gospels regarding the life of Jesus and his works. There are also times in the bible where it would state that Jesus was alone in prayer and the apostles slept, yet they still were able to narrate what he said and even thought as he prayed!! If that does not stink of fiction to you then I don't know what fiction is.
What you left out in the above statement is that those so called 40+ writers had several things that worked against them. The first is that they were all alleged believers or followers of the Christian religion. None of them knew Jesus personally and so all the accounts we have of him are 2,3,4 person accounts of him. Not to mention that those so called 40+ authors you boast about are anonymous authors and many of those books were not even written by the names that were attached to them.
The synoptic gospels which are supposed to be a sort of biography of Jesus were not introduced till about 40 years after his alleged death, when they were first known they were anonymous works with no authors names attached to them, this did not happen until the middle of the second century. It is my opinion that Jesus was a sort of after thought due to the length of time it took to present his story and the fact that the epistles were much earlier works. This assessment does not include the fact that there are many inconsistencies in the gospels regarding the life of Jesus and his works. There are also times in the bible where it would state that Jesus was alone in prayer and the apostles slept, yet they still were able to narrate what he said and even thought as he prayed!! If that does not stink of fiction to you then I don't know what fiction is.
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