(August 28, 2018 at 12:00 pm)Caligvla XXI Wrote: I had mentioned this in passing in another thread, but I believe it needs a thread of its own. There's a slim volume out on Amazon.com with the title The Testimony of Nathan Son of Isaac Concerning Jesus of Nazareth translated from the Greek by Ben Armhardt. It has been tentatively dated to the eleventh century but purports to be written by a contemporary of Jesus who debunks certain of the miracles and the resurrection. If authentic--i.e. a copy of something that was actually written in the first century--it would really do in Christianity. However, it would also do in the mythicists as well. I'm still trying to figure out what to make of it. Any textual critics in the house?
There is absolutely ZERO evidence of the character of "Jesus" outside the bible, that matches with what the bible claims. The Romans never made mention of him during the time the bible claims he existed. All the NT was written after the character was claim to have existed in the bible.
The only thing that the bible proves is people wrote a book of claims. Certainly it was based on a movement otherwise Christianity wouldn't have existed. But there still is no truth to magic babies with super powers, nor can a human being survive rigor mortis after having all the blood drained out of their body and being dead for days.
