[churchillbuff]

"The people who came to believe the New Testament were not people who lived where the events supposedly took place""""

Those who saw Jesus after his resurrection believed. They were in Jerusalem and Gallilee. People in Rome had just as hard a time accepting the resurrection as people in Jerusalem who had not seen the risen Christ. That's why Paul and Peter were executed in Rome, and thrown out of other cities as they related the mind-blowing thing they had witnessed.

[PigRigger]

Church -

Mind Blowing to say the least.

Unfortunately, I have to stop engaging Inyokern; it really never leads anywhere other than the standard "Jesus Never Existed" or "If it's not written somewhere, other than the Bible, it can't be true".

I don't mind disagreements based on differences of opinion; but absolute dismal of likely events (and persons) is beyond reason.