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Old 02-02-2009, 08:06 PM   #481
nkb
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Alright at least you are putting up a fight.
Putting up a fight implies that you actually brought a fight. So far, all I've seen from you are someone else's lame arguments.

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Ok, you just stated that it is impossible to prove a negative. Then you said you are 100% sure that Jesus is a myth. Another way of stating that is you are 100% sure he did NOT exist. How is that not faulty logic?
When I say "Jesus didn't exist", I refer to the divine Jesus, not some random dude named Jesus, who may have walked around and annoyed people 2000 years ago.

The reason I can say that God (meaning your God, Yahweh) doesn't exist is because he is logically inconsistent (you know, the whole tri-omni attributes, which are mutually exclusive).
The reason I can be sure there was no divine Jesus is the utter lack of evidence for him, outside of a book with some highly biased authors, and the fact that everything about him was plagiarized from other god myths that preceded him (son of god, virgin birth, miracles, bla, bla, bla).

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Alright I get it you have heard the apologetic stuff before. So my question to you is there anything a historian could tell that you would believe? If so what standard did the other historical documents pass that ones in the link below do not meet?

http://www.rationalchristianity.net/jesus_extrabib.html
Sure, although I'm not sure what you think they might find now that they haven't dug up in 2000 years.
I would consider it a good start to find something, anything, contemporary about Jesus. A mention in the Roman records of a cult leader that was nailed to a cross, Jesus' grocery list, a letter to Santa from kid Jesus, anything.
Of course, from that to showing me that he was divine and performed miracles, I can't imagine any evidence that would be strong enough to convince me.
What would you propose as reasonable?

Note: You do realize the information in the link you provided has been beat to death here many times over? Why don't you do a search and read up, before we rehash all of it.

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