RE: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus (Part 2)
December 14, 2014 at 1:12 pm
(This post was last modified: December 14, 2014 at 1:20 pm by His_Majesty.)
(December 12, 2014 at 10:24 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: My point is that your contention that people cannot write knowledgably about an historic period unless they've lived through it is idiotic. Well-researched historical writing has a long, well, history. If it didn't, there would BE no historical writing. If what you contend is true, then you cannot possibly know anything about the life of the figure known as Jesus of Nazareth, because you didn't walk round with him, didn't talk to him, didn't hold the bucket while he vommed up that wine he made at Cana.
Boru
Dude, reading comprehension, how about that? I said no one could have gotten those FACTS that I mentioned about 1st Century Palestine unless they had knowledge of the area, or they spoke to someone WITH knowledge of the area, and nothing you said is a defeater of that.
(December 13, 2014 at 12:55 am)Jenny A Wrote: Everyone else has already answered for me.
Listening to me = safe bet....listening to "everyone else" = big gamble.
(December 13, 2014 at 12:55 am)Jenny A Wrote: But the big questions remain. Why second hand hearsay is acceptable written decades after the events is acceptable proof;
Because perhaps those second hand sources were still living DECADES after the event. Kinda like how Reverend Jesse Jackson was present during the MLK assassination, and he is still alive almost five "decades" later and can still tell you what he saw.
Kinda the same kinda stuff.
(December 13, 2014 at 12:55 am)Jenny A Wrote: why we would accept sources that contradict each fundamentally;
Because they don't.
(December 13, 2014 at 12:55 am)Jenny A Wrote: why there are no first hand contemporary sources for such huge events. Got any real answers?
Because the average Joe couldn't read or write during those times, Jenny. If the average person in the U.S couldn't read or write, I wouldn't expect to see many facebook statuses coming from the U.S of A.
What happened is exactly what you would expect to happen, people could't read or write so they b began to spread.
And since you love asking questions, how about you answer this one: Why do you think Christianity spread so quickly and so far despite no "first hand" contemporary sources for such huge events?
