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Facts do not require belief. And whereas beliefs can live comfortably without evidence at all, facts depend on evidence.
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I concede this point. Without a doubt there is a leap of faith to believe in Jesus and God. Though I do not agree with the statements above this one.
I am not trying to show beyond a reasonable doubt that Jesus the man existed. I am trying to make you concede that there is certainly a good possibility that he might have.
As for the writing or documentation of Jesus....
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1) As in the example of Homer. Oral tradition not written tradition was the way stories, history and lesson were taught. Why? Not many people could read. So more than likely the History of Christ was transmitted orally...until someone had the great idea to write some of them down. This leads to mistakes, embellishments, etc.
2) How many Jewish documents survived the sacking of Jerusalem and of the Temple of Solomon and the expulsion of the Jews from Israel???? Do you think the head Rabbi grabbed the documents relating to a radical when the Romans marched in? This is hardly a move to the next neighbourhood.
3) Why would the Romans write voluminously about a backwater province like Israel? The only time that province came into their thinking is when they revolted. Then the Romans ticked off the bootie from the temple and the numbers crucified. They only left the Jews one wall to wail on!
I hardly think this is the "Dog ate the homework" stuff.