(March 7, 2014 at 1:58 pm)rsb Wrote: Argument for Christ never existing.
Starts invariably with "Romans were good record keepers."
It's not just that there was no evidence for Jesus' trial, execution, and burial in Roman records, there are no contemporary records of his existence anywhere, and the gospel stories weren't written until about 70 years after Jesus supposedly existed, and even they conflict with each other on the details. Nor did one person ever write down all the miracles Jesus supposedly performed.
The simple fact is that the gospels are the claim, not the evidence. What we're left with is an old book full of fanciful stories which are likely fiction, and no archaeological evidence to show that a historic Jesus ever existed.
And lastly, I'll gladly believe that Jesus was a real person if evidence ever appears. But if you want me to believe he's the son of an all-powerful deity, you'd better prove that, too.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.