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Originally posted by FlamesAddiction@Oct 27 2004, 08:37 PM
It sounds like that person has a bone to pick with the issue. If we held all ancient literature to those standards, I would bet a lot of people never existed.
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Well, to be frank, he's got a point. There's virtually nothing physical or first person saying Jesus ever existed.
Another opinion.
Yet today, there are few Biblical scholars-- from liberal skeptics to conservative evangelicals- who believe that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John actually wrote the Gospels. Nowhere do the writers of the texts identify themselves by name or claim unambiguously to have known or traveled with Jesus.
-Jeffery L. Sheler, "The Four Gospels," (U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 10, 1990)
In other words, they're not first person accounts of knowledge of Jesus.
The author I originally posted above says "zero proof" while others, obviously, want to say there's a little more than "zero" but that's as far as they can go - "a little more than zero"
I'm not a bible-thumper and have an open mind about it. I don't care one way or the other. I would just say: "Prove it" and from my somewhat disinterested vantage point, it seems to me it remains a riddle.
Cowperson