Evidence for Jesus Christ?

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I obviously cannot prove any of this but I can say that I am just as certain that God exists as I am that I do!

Personal certitude is not the same as certainty and not the same as knowledge. (gnosis)


Either provides some evidence for your beliefs of fuck off.

I'm so sorry (well OK, I'm not) if that sound harsh or unkind. I DO have sound reasons: (1)the same drivel is hurled at us on about a weekly basis. (2) A total waste of time trying to argue with an apologist;they are unwilling to entertain the POSSIBILITY of error. That makes them closed minded,and intellectually dishonest. (3) Personal failing I guess, but I refuse to suffer fools.

same drivel:Eg

a true Christian believes that God is just and pure in righteousness,

That's called "the no true Scotsman fallacy"

There isn't anything in the Bible that has ever been disproven,

Oh for suck sake! There's stupid and ignorant and then there are statements like that. We don't have to disprove ANYTHING,it's you who are making the claims, it's up to you to provide the evidence.Provide some or shut the fuck up. (sorry, feeling a bit frustrated)

Current archaeology:I refer you to " THE BIBLE UNEARTHED: Archaeology's New Vision Of Ancient Israel And the Origin Of Sacred Texts" by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman.

EG There was no large Davidic kingdom and that Moses and the Exodus are pure myth.

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The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts[1] is a 2001 book about the archaeology of Israel and its relationship to the origins of the Hebrew Bible. The authors are Israel Finkelstein, Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, and Neil Asher Silberman, a contributing editor to Archaeology Magazine.

Methodology

The authors describe their approach as one "in which the Bible is one of the most important artifacts and cultural achievements [but] not the unquestioned narrative framework into which every archaeological find must be fit." Their main contention is that
“ ...an archaeological analysis of the patriarchal, conquest, judges, and United Monarchy narratives [shows] that while there is no compelling archaeological evidence for any of them, there is clear archaeological evidence that places the stories themselves in a late 7th-century BCE context. ”

On the basis of this evidence they propose
“ ...an archaeological reconstruction of the distinct histories of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, highlighting the largely neglected history of the Omride Dynasty and attempting to show how the influence of Assyrian imperialism in the region set in motion a chain of events that would eventually make the poorer, more remote, and more religiously conservative kingdom of Judah the belated center of the cultic and national hopes of all Israel. ”

As noted by a reviewer on Salon.com[2] the approach and conclusions of The Bible Unearthed are not particularly new. Ze'ev Herzog, professor of archaeology at Tel Aviv University, wrote a cover story for Ha'aretz in 1999 in which he reached similar conclusions following the same methodology; Herzog noted also that some of these findings have been accepted by the majority of biblical scholars and archaeologists for years and even decades, even though they have only recently begun to make a dent in the awareness of the general public.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bible_Unearthed