(January 30, 2015 at 11:41 am)SteveII Wrote: Um, hearsay is certainly evidence. The absence of evidence is not evidence. Would the letters of John, Peter and James by hearsay? You also need a reasonably explanation why the first Christians acted on the belief that Jesus rose from the dead.
Hearsay is the claim. It's the way we even have a clue about all of what you are claiming.
It's the claim. One thing cannot both be the claim and the evidence. It really is not that difficult to comprehend.
If I have a book that's 2200 years old and tells me that Amun Ra is the one and true god above all. That's the claim. I cannot also look at that book and claim it to be the evidence that Amun Ra is real and the one and true god. It is the claim. I need to look elsewhere for corroborative evidence to support that claim.
That is what your are missing.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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