The Historical Reliability of the New Testament

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If you replayed the world again 1+1 would still equal 2. You could still make bronze by heating copper and tin and mountains will be pushed up by plate tectonics but what you wouldn't get is the history repeating.

And your god boy is just a blip of history not a universal truth and much as you try to deny it the fact that no-one but a small group of desert sheep farmers thought anything of it is a good reason to reject it as universal truth.

How's that small group of desert sheep farmers looking now, deadbeat? Not so small any more, is it?  

Because it gained the favour of a murderous regime that enforced it by torture and horror for hundreds of years.

Kim Jon Un is big in North Korea for exactly the same reasons as the catholic church was big during the middle ages.
This does not seem like something to be proud of. More ashamed.

If Jesus is God, then that is universally true regardless of whether rainforest tribes know it or not.

Agreed, but the fact that they were unaware of your favourite fictional character is a sign that it was made up.
If it was true the stories would have matched but they do not do they.
remember jesus was supposed to come down and do his shit for everyone not matter where but only people in his immediate vicinity heard of him.

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"What ifs" based on natural observable conditions.  The "rocket-scientists", as you say, did not come up with any 'magical' conclusions.

What if I said that John Lennon was not killed by Mark David Chapman.

Instead, he was whisked away by aliens at the last second and Chapman shot a stand-in.

Lennon is actually working on a new album and playing to an adoring public on another planet. He's also glad to be free from Yoko at last.

It's not very likely, but it IS possible...based on what we know of Yoko.

A more likely scenario than jesus existing as god and going to heaven.

It is statistically possible that aliens may exist.

The same cannot be said for Yahweh.