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To: Heartlander; Soliton

Soliton, does that mean you allow that Tacitus existed? How about Nero, Pontius Pilate, or Tiberias? All of them were historical figures, and yet the physical evidence for any particular one’s existence is much less than for Jesus Christ. Using your standard of historicity, you cannot prove that Tacitus, Nero, Pontius Pilate, nor Tiberias ever existed. As Historian Will Durant says, “the Higher Criticism has applied to the New Testament tests of authenticity so severe that by them a hundred ancient worthies- e.g., Hammurabi, David, Socrates- would fade into legend.”


140 posted on 07/31/2008 5:25:43 PM PDT by Kevmo (A person's a person, no matter how small. ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo

I merely point out the lack of evidence.


142 posted on 07/31/2008 5:39:33 PM PDT by Soliton (Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)
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