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Originally Posted by boxcar
Sir, you asked for one extra-biblical source. You didn't qualify your challenge with "extra-biblical, atheistic-sources, or "extra-biblical secular" sources. Nor did you qualify with any date parameters.
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Well, duh! Do I really have to spell it out for you? 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.
