(June 11, 2015 at 1:24 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:(June 11, 2015 at 1:19 pm)SteveII Wrote: Because you can't test them does not mean they are unfalsifiable.Uh, yes, yes it does. If you have no way of investigating a claim, you cannot falsify it.
Quote:A statement is if it is possible to conceive an observation or an argument which proves the statement in question to be false.Falsifiability requires some observation or experiment. You cannot make observations or perform experiments on something that is untestable. How exactly could we falsify your claims?
Further observations are possible and therefore the claims (which seek to explain the evidence we have) are falsifiable.
I can conceive that further written evidence is found that shows the NT writers to have made the whole thing up.
I can conceive that the body of Jesus (complete with tombstone) is found.
I can conceive that documents surface that there was no Jesus and he was that teacher from 100 years earlier.
By your standards, no historical information could be relied on for anything...because you can't test it??? That's ridiculous.