I'm willing to believe an historical Jesus probably existed. We even have present day data to that effect:
But the miracles constitute extreme claims which call for extraordinary evidence. A DVD, blueray, heck even an SD VHS tape from that era would be endlessly more convincing than what shows every evidence of being a cobbled together set of inconsistent texts by a bunch of self interested clerics with an agenda to scam and fleece their flocks in the first century and thereafter.
The canonical gospels are true because olden days Jews didn't trust women and women provided the evidence for the empty tomb? The data is most reliable because it was provided by witnesses considered the least reliable? Give me a break.
But the miracles constitute extreme claims which call for extraordinary evidence. A DVD, blueray, heck even an SD VHS tape from that era would be endlessly more convincing than what shows every evidence of being a cobbled together set of inconsistent texts by a bunch of self interested clerics with an agenda to scam and fleece their flocks in the first century and thereafter.
The canonical gospels are true because olden days Jews didn't trust women and women provided the evidence for the empty tomb? The data is most reliable because it was provided by witnesses considered the least reliable? Give me a break.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?