(July 11, 2015 at 12:19 pm)robvalue Wrote: Wow! Well I'll take that as a retraction...
I have no idea if he existed. No one can possibly know.
I'm sure there were plenty of people around who would roughly meet the description.
This is a bullshit answer, rob. Cowardly even.
You can know if Jesus existed by STUDYING THE EVIDENCE.
Professional scholars do it all the time. It takes some effort. It takes some courage. But the evidence for Jesus' existence is there for your evaluation. If you don't think Jesus existed, then have the guts to say so. If you do think he existed, then show some stones and say so.
Why not just man up and admit that you LIKE being on the fence about whether Jesus existed or not because you don't want to commit one way or the other?
Because you know that once you admit that Jesus DID exist, then you're going to have to make some hard decisions about the minimal facts I'm presenting in this thread. And you don't want to face those facts, do you, rob?