RE: This is the Problem
October 23, 2014 at 8:09 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2014 at 8:10 pm by Simon Moon.)
(October 23, 2014 at 7:45 pm)Christian Wrote: You simply cannot discard evidence for Lord Jesus Christ.
Lucian
Not born until 90 years after Jesus death. All he reports is what other Christians told him.
Not evidence.
Quote:Pliny the younger
Born in 112 CE.
He writes a letter to Trajan asking how to deal with Christians. All he does is verify that there were Christians in the 2nd century. What a shock!
Quote:Josephus
3rd century forgery inserted by Eusebius.
Quote:Tacitus
Wrote in 115.
All he does is verify that Christians existed in the 2nd century.
Quote:Suetonius
'Chrestus' was a proper name. It did not mean 'Christ'.
Again, all Suetonius' writings do is verify that Christians existed in the 2nd century.
Where's that evidence you mentioned?
By the way. Even if you could prove that a historical Yeshua ben Joseph existed, that by itself does not even get close to proving he was a god that performed miracles.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
