(November 4, 2013 at 3:13 pm)John V Wrote:(November 4, 2013 at 11:56 am)Aral Gamelon Wrote: While I currently don't have the time to break down into the nitty gritty, alas RL calls, historically accurate data (as I know it, if anyone has a better definition seeing as I am not in fact a historian or scholar in the matter) is based upon documentationQuote:OK, there are documents regarding Jesus.
Not really.
But that subject has been done to death elsewhere on this forum.
Quote:or empirical evidence (observational evidence) backed up by further evidence (e.g. photographic or physical evidence, or separate agreeing documentation).And we have separate agreeing documentation. The NT is a collection, not a single document.
There are lots of documents making up the religion of ancient egypt. Does this prove the existance of Horus?
Exotic claims require more proof than ordinary claims because of their nature.
Books alone are just words and words alone can be lies.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.