Because there are so very few non bibical mentions in support of a historic Jesus you are forced into this argument that basically that because Christianity survived it must be true. Would you make that claim of Islam?
I didn’t become a Christian because of the Bible. It was the other way around. I became a Christian and was compelled to read the Bible.
You can't check the facts, yet you are asking us to take the Gospels as fact simply because they weren't abandoned as false by early Christians?
That is really not my argument here. I really just want to explore the foundation of Christianity. Christianity had a beginning, a first flock, if you will. I want see if it makes sense that these people could be duped given the fact that what was being told to them, happened just a little while before, and right next door.
Your argument can not establish the accuracy of the gospels. That you are even making such a weak argument is testimony to the weakness of your evidence.
To this point there has not been much of an argument on the original point of this thread. I understand many doubt the dating of the scriptures. And we can debate that in other posts if you would like. What is my evidence that compels me to believe in Christ? Faith, not history.
Hebrews 1:11
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Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
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