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Originally Posted by Cheese
The above are your words TC....you are suggesting as far as I can see that there are no "official records" or "administrative documents" as we would think today, outside of Second Temple Judaism which I admittedly know little about.
Then you say:
"It seems to me that you along with a number of mythicists are dismissing all the evidence in the Gospels and in Paul for the existence of Jesus, on the basis that they are agenda driven sources. "
I guess my answer to the above has to be yes, "until proven otherwise". It is you and your brethern's responsibility to educate the masses on the history/significances of the day and how that translates to a historical Jesus. That's the skeptic in me I guess.
I also freely admit that my Constantine example above was hypothesized and is likely fallacious.
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Just a little note here: there are gospels that are not currently included in the New Testament, and I believe Textcritic would be including those in his example of documents that contain evidence of the historical existence of Christ, am I right, Textcritic? The Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Judas, ect.?