Originally posted by chaney3This answer of yours has simply sidestepped the main point I made to you which was that... 'How firmly people believed something' is evidence of nothing much aside from the state of mind of the people dying and the notions and beliefs that they internalized during their lifetimes.
I cannot dispute your bringing up suicide bombers. To me, they are "madmen".
Edit: although I don't view the death of Peter as anything close to the same thing.
01 Feb 17
Originally posted by FMFSo are you implying that there is no evidence apart from the Bible for the veracity of what the Bible says?
So your inquiry into the veracity of what the Bible says is built upon the premise that the veracity of what the Bible says, preemptively, as it were, is a given, is that right?
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkIf there is no evidence apart from the Bible itself for the veracity of what the Bible says then that is a textbook case of circular reasoning. If that's good enough for you, intellectually speaking, so be it. But it is something you ought to acknowledge when discussing your "evidence" with people who don't subscribe to ~ in your case ~ ancient Hebrew mythology and those writings about Jesus produced in the decades and centuries after his death.
So are you implying that there is no evidence apart from the Bible for the veracity of what the Bible says?
Originally posted by FMFAre you implying there is no evidence for the veracity of the Bible apart from the Bible itself? Yes or No?
If there is no evidence apart from the Bible itself for the veracity of what the Bible says then that is a textbook case of circular reasoning. If that's good enough for you, intellectually speaking, so be it. But it is something you ought to acknowledge when discussing your "evidence" with people who don't subscribe to ~ in your case ~ ancient Hebrew mythology and those writings about Jesus produced in the decades and centuries after his death.
01 Feb 17
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkI gave you my answer. If you have any evidence to corroborate the claims that Christians make about Jesus, and about things like who met him, and who it actually was who wrote what and when they did it, by which I mean evidence that is not merely stuff that is contained in your supposedly self-verifying bible, then feel free to present it.
Are you implying there is no evidence for the veracity of the Bible apart from the Bible itself? Yes or No?
Originally posted by FMFI have presented you with evidence before. Why are you pretending to have forgotten?
I gave you my answer. If you have any evidence to corroborate the claims that Christians make about Jesus, and about things like who met him, and who it actually was who wrote what and when they did it, by which I mean evidence that is not merely stuff that is contained in your supposedly self-verifying bible, then feel free to present it.
01 Feb 17
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkYou are mistaken. You haven't presented any evidence that the words attributed to a man referred to as "Peter" were spoken by or written by someone who met Jesus. That is what is being discussed here. So I am not "pretending" anything. If you think you have presented evidence that is taken from sources other than the bible and which establishes or corroborates that the "Peter" chaney3 is referring to is a man who met Jesus, then point to the post in which you did this?
I have presented you with evidence before. Why are you pretending to have forgotten?
Originally posted by divegeesterSo since I am not a Bible scholar I have to find my own evidence and can't use the findings of someone else who actually is a Bible scholar? And this is you being serious?
What evidence?
You were caught copy/pasting a list of alleged soucrces and presenting as your own.
As a Christian, would you say there is no evidence to support your belief in the Bible?