(Ron) Aristotle

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HELEN:
I agree with you on your last paragraph but don't you think it is 
exactly because of the dmands on our lives that the Christian myth 
makes, that we should demand more evidence for Jesus not less. 
Your proof is much less. There are no letters by his disciples that 
know him during his life that are accepted by most scholars. Paul 
never know him. A couple of the gospels may have been written as 
much as 70 years after his death. The best anyone claims, and this 
claim is rejected by most scholars, is one as early as around 10 years 
after his death. The gospels contradict each other. Finally even though 
some of the events in the gospels should have secondary witnesses, 
(slaughter of the children by Herod, the hours of darkness in the 
daytime, many dead people walking about, the earthquake, and 
probably a couple of other "events") these witness do not exist.


RON
  The accounts of the life of Alexander contradict each other. We have 
no early accounts of his life by "disinterested" contemporaries. Many of 
these accounts depict supernatural events. He was even depicted as a 
god, son of Zeus and Ammon. Do you doubt Alexander existed? My point is 
that someone might honestly harbor doubts about the truthfulness of all 
the accounts of Jesus life, but to deny He even existed is wishful 
thinking or blind faith, equivalent to the blind faith required for 
someone to believe there is no God. Why would a person sincerely seeking 
the truth be so un-scientific unless they had a desire for it to be so?  

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