RE: Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach
July 19, 2015 at 1:28 pm
(This post was last modified: July 19, 2015 at 1:32 pm by Kaninchen.)
(July 19, 2015 at 1:23 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: If you have ancient texts that you wish for us to consider in rebuttal to the gospels, kaninchen, by all means let us know.
When you eventually get around to establishing them as being worthy of anybody being bothered, Randy, you'll be the first person I'll tell.
(July 19, 2015 at 1:23 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: The Jews of the first and second century did not deny the crucifixion of Jesus, so we'd all love to see what you have to show us.
Come on, Randy, we've been there, done that. Remember 'Silver Blaze'?
What did the Jewish people do? Carried on being Jewish and getting into suicidal wars with the Romans while, having failed to convince us, the early Christians developed sales scripts for the more gullible.
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
