RE: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1)
November 25, 2014 at 4:22 pm
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2014 at 5:06 pm by Cyberman.)
(November 25, 2014 at 3:53 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: Since when does the blind lead a person with 20/20 vision?
Again with the arrogance? Your xtian brethren and sistren must be very proud, having you as their ambassador.
(November 25, 2014 at 3:53 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: Dude, please. First off, if by "more", you mean the minority that don't believe? Well, there is still the majority that do believe. Apparently it is that compelling to that majority...so where you get this "or there'd be mroe historians who accept it" shit...I don't know.
I got that from you, actually. Even if 90% of historians believed in JC as an historical character, there would still be that 10% who didn't. Their objections still need to be evaluated, so we can determine why they don't accept it. It may be they have biases preventing their accepting the evidence, agendas to push. Or they may just have a point. But if you cut them out of the frame altogether without consideration, how are we ever to know?
This is all academic anyway, since - for the umpteenth time - we're not addressing a majority of evidence-believers, we're dealing with one guy on the internet talking about a majority. One guy, it has to be noted, with rather less than an unblemished track record pertaining to honesty and bias.
(November 25, 2014 at 3:53 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: But apparently you don't know the facts....so it would help if you actually knew what you were talking about...
Interesting choice of phrase. Are you still citing Josephus as reliable testimony, after you've been shown repeatedly why it's not?
(November 25, 2014 at 3:53 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: like where does the community within the field of history stand...and the majority are on my side.
Yet again, we only have your statement of that. I could say the majority of xtians are secretly scientologists, with just as much authority.
(November 25, 2014 at 3:53 pm)His_Majesty Wrote:(November 25, 2014 at 1:56 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I'm not a historian
Noooo?
Yeah I know, I'm only one guy on an atheist forum who just happens to have a different view on this stuff to you. So?
(November 25, 2014 at 3:53 pm)His_Majesty Wrote:(November 25, 2014 at 1:56 pm)Stimbo Wrote: but I am a reasonable man. I'll accept a good reason. I'll accept a bad reason. I'll accept any damn reason at all, only at least meet me halfway and give me something to get my teeth into.
I can do that...I just would like to talk on a different platform..an IM platform, where we can really get to the issue.
What would that achieve? Why can't you get to the issue right here?
(November 25, 2014 at 3:53 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: I predict you will reject the offer, though
That offer, yes. I don't do IM with anyone outside my personal circle. Now you may crow.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
