Quote:Fore there are more period manuscripts that Speak to Jesus Christ than any other figure in that period of History.
Drippy you are still the biggest fucking idiot on these boards. Too bad, G-C left. You two could have gone for the heavyweight title of ignorance.
I've been waiting for you to trot out this particular canard so I could ambush you with reality. Patience is always rewarded!
Quote:A greater gaffe in defense of Jesus' historicity is to make claims that are conspicuously opposite the truth of the matter, as when E.P.
Sanders boasts that 'the sources for Jesus are better ... than those that
deal with Alexander [the Great]'. A more suicidal remark for his case
could hardly be imagined. Unlike Jesus, we have over half a dozen
relatively objective historians discussing the history of Alexander the Great (most notably Diodorus, Dionysius, Rufus, Trogus, Plutarch and
more). These are not romances or propagandists, least of all fanatical
worshipers, or anyone concerned about dogma, but disinterested historical writers employing some of the recognized skills of critical analysis of their day on a wide body of sources they had available that
we do not. Which doesn't mean we trust everything they say, but we still cannot name even one such person for Jesus, and 'none' is not 'more' than half a dozen.
Richard Carrier - On the Historicity of Jesus Pg. 21-22
