(February 9, 2015 at 9:42 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(February 9, 2015 at 5:10 pm)TheMessiah Wrote: 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.
What do you expect from someone who simply posts a link to a thread with over 36 thousand posts and says the answer is there, without bothering to give anything here that is substantial, or even to direct us to a specific post among those many thousands of posts? Not to mention the fact that the posts themselves have links to other things, some of which are quite lengthy?
What we have here is a kind of fallacy involving overwhelming one's opponents in an argument with excessive verbiage and not bothering with clearly stating the relevant bits. If he were serious in trying to communicate with us, he is doing a very poor job of it. But it is clear enough that he has nothing real to say, or he would simply say it.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
