To: mike182d
Secondly, you would think that Romans would have written more ....
To how many people do you wish to apply the same historical scrupulosity? Never mind the Romans wr to Jesus. We are talking about what the fellow bishops of "Nicholas of Myra" would have written.
He. Punched. Arius. He's like a legend!
But. no mention.
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
15 posted on
12/20/2005 8:46:59 PM PST by
Oztrich Boy
(so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about - J S Mill)
To: Oztrich Boy
You're forgetting that the Roman persecutions, as well as wars and other chaotic events, destroyed historical documents.
29 posted on
12/21/2005 6:23:07 AM PST by
Pyro7480
(Sancte Joseph, terror daemonum, ora pro nobis!)
To: Oztrich Boy
"When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."
You don't think rising from the dead is "legendary?" Did not the Roman guards, in the Gospel accounts, say: "Truly this was the Son of God!"
And yet, so little is written by the Romans of this every happenening.
If you're going to use that logic, you must apply it to every historical figure.
33 posted on
12/21/2005 7:49:46 AM PST by
mike182d
("Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?")
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