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06-04-2006, 09:22 AM | #1 |
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Extra Biblical Evidence For Jesus
http://www.probe.org/content/view/18/77
Not only do we have the eye witness account of the 11 disciples, but we have these early century writers that bore witness to the fact. Yes and only one disciple died a natural death, the others were all murdered. Hmmm, they died poor and now some skeptics say mislead. How is that so? Have you noticed all of the leaders of anything, sacrifice themselves, preach the word, and then die in unspeakable ways? Getting ran through with spears, heads smashed in, Peter was hung upside down on a cross in Rome, wasn't he? Hardly something you would expect from men that were eye witnesses of a lie. |
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I tell you what, why don't you just provide the eyewitness testemony of one disciple.
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No fair, Toto. You're jumping ahead.
Edit: Toto, it'd probably fit better in the thread to which you linked but was it Julian that maintained a site with a color-coded reference to Jesus' contemporaries that shoulda/coulda written about him? If so, do you have the link? I lost it in a computer move last year. If it's somebody else's, could I still have it? Gracias por la ayuda. |
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To wit: 1. We do not possess the testimony of any disciple or any eyewitness of Jesus. Nothing in the New Testament was written by anyone who ever met Jesus. 2. There is no evidence that any disciple was ever martyred for his beliefs. 3. There is no evidence that any of the disciples (if they existed at all) ever made any supernatural claims about Jesus. ever claimed he had physically risen from the dead, ever claimed to have seen an empty tomb, ever claimed to have believed Jesus was God or ever claimed to have believed he was the Messiah. All of those claims were made decades after the alleged facts by people who never met Jesus and probably never met anyone else who ever met Jesus. |
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Javaman:
Iasion maintains a helpful web page with color coding. Try this: The early evidence for Christianity or other pages from here. |
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That's it! Thanks much. Must have been an I/J thing in my head.
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06-04-2006, 11:48 AM | #10 |
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Pat, although the bible keeps says 12 disciples it names 14. How can that be?
These guys are just all part of the story…the fictional story. They are no more eye witnesses to Jesus than the crowd who shouts “Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! IT’S SUPERMAN!!!!” are eye witnesses to Clark Kent. Would they be exposed to kryptonite by Lex Luthor if they didn't know Superman was real? |
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