(February 9, 2015 at 5:10 pm)TheMessiah Wrote:(February 9, 2015 at 5:00 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Zeus had an amazing effect on the Greeks? Did he exist? It's just special pleading without actual evidence.
This exact quote is directly tackled and debunked in the link I posted, 2nd page.
Actually I do not see such a reference and I did a search for the word "pleading" on the page but I did find this from Mr. O'Neill.
Quote:Exactly. We know of Theudas, the Egyptian, the Samaritan Prophet and several others solely from Josephus. Yet no-one questions their historicity. We know of Jesus from Josephus and several other sources and yet we're told he is "invisible to history"? WTF?
If he accepts the TF as authentic then he is a schmuck.