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Originally Posted by Actor
Well, duh! Do I really have to spell it out for you?
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Yeah, you do because you are so duplicitous, as you have just proved again. Always moving the goalposts.
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Do you really have to be told that stuff written centuries after the alleged event by authors who do not identify their sources are in no position to attest to the historicity of the event? Do you really expect me to come down to your level of gullibility?
Ok. I'll spell it out for you.- Scripture proves nothing.
- Writings by authors who do not identify their sources, or who cite only sources whose existence cannot be verified, prove nothing.
- Writings by authors who have a vested interested in perpetuating the myth prove nothing.
You are trying to shift the burden of proof. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The alleged resurrection is a super-extraordinary event and requires super-extraordinary evidence. Your evidence, if you can call it that, is tenuous and flimsy.
You made the claim. You prove it. You come up with evidence that is convincing.
You want "best attested?" Here are a few candidates.- The reign of Ramses II.
- The conquests of Alexander the Great.
- The measurement of the size of the earth by Eratosthenes.
- The Second Servile War (i.e., the Spartacus Revolt).
- The conquests of Julius Caesar.
- The assassination of Julius Caesar.
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Again, Jesus' existence is accepted by most scholars in this world. Some eyewitnesses to his life, death, burial and resurrection actually wrote parts of the NT -- John and Peter. Luke traveled with Paul and had the eyewitness accounts of the apostles Paul met with -- plus other eyewitnesses. Paul also saw the risen Christ and he wrote at least seven epistles. It is also very likely that Matthew is the Jewish tax collector Levi who came to faith in Jesus. (It was very common in the ANE for a person to have two first names!) Mark was very good friends with Peter and undoubtedly drew very much of his material from the apostle, etc.
In short, Jesus' existence is extremely well attested to. It is no wonder that no ancient writer or historian ever disputed his existence. Not even the Christ-hating Jews in the Babylonian Talmud denied his existence. And if anyone didn't want Jesus to exist, it would have been them!
