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Author Topic:   There is an appalling lack of historical evidence backing the Bible's veracity
AnswersInGenitals
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Message 10 of 306 (479090)
08-24-2008 2:31 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by cavediver
08-24-2008 6:53 AM


All hail Caesar!
...there is more evidence for the existence of Jesus than for Julius Ceasar
No-one doubts that there existed a man named Jesus (or Jeshua, actually) who lived in Judea in the first century. There were probably hundreds of such men as this was a very common name. However, the evidence that one of these men was god incarnate is pretty much the same as that Julius Caesar was god incarnate.
There is a form of didactic argument being used here that I call the 'derivative lie': "We have inscriptions and writings from first century Judea referring to a Jeshua. Therefore, we can derive that the new testament description of Jesus is accurate in all its detail."

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