(January 30, 2015 at 2:25 pm)Chas Wrote:(January 30, 2015 at 2:20 pm)SteveII Wrote: Perhaps you are struggling with the term "Bible". There are five written documents (gospels+acts). I chose to believe these accounts because they are describing actual events--not because they claim any special consideration (like inspiration) -- because they don't.
There is no evidence that these are actual events. Your Gospels and Acts are the claim, not the evidence.
Evidence for those claims must be external to the Gospels and Acts.
That does not make sense. If a fifth gospel was found, written by the apostle Andrew, an eyewitness to the events. Would The Gospel According to Andrew be a claim or evidence?
If Joe the Jew did the same but did not state he was a Christian, would that somehow change from a claim to evidence?