RE: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1)
November 29, 2014 at 11:28 pm
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2014 at 11:28 pm by GrandizerII.)
(November 29, 2014 at 11:17 pm)His_Majesty Wrote:(November 29, 2014 at 2:04 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: If you were to go a little more in-depth, you'd find most of the historians you claim for your side don't base their opinion on the sources you've cited.
They don't base their opinion SOLELY on the sources I've cited...they use other supplementary sources...like the Gospels, Paul's Epistles...the origins of the Christian faith, and the testimony of the early Church...all of these things, PLUS the sources that I've cited is more than enough historical data for virtually all historians to agree that Jesus of Nazareth existed. It is not just one source, but a totality of all of those things.
As far as I know, Ehrman pretty much only uses the NT as evidence for Jesus' existence (with a proper textual analysis, of course). He sees the evidence you cited in the OP as very weak.