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Originally Posted by Cheese
How does one have or hold faith in this topic when as you suggest there are many exceptional claims and he was nothing more than a pedestrian prophet?
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"Faith" by its very definition persists in the absence of evidence, or in spite of the evidence at hand. I don't really know how to answer your question without moving far afield of the topic, and venturing into a discussion about the nature and practice of religion. If you don't mind, I would much prefer to keep this exchange about history. I probably should not have said anything in the last post, but I think that I was attempting to underscore for observers that most of the "exceptional claims" of the New Testament are a religious matter, and as a rule do not factor into the conversation regarding history within the texts.