I see! So your 'evidence' to prove that it's all true is..........the Bible. Sorry, but without any reason to think that the claims in the bible are true, we have no reason to accept any argument that you make on a "purely theological basis". So no purely theological proof is worth any thing...
So your argument is, because people wrote about your Jesus and his crucifixion, it must be true. Lets apply that argument to other 'historical' characters.
People built beliefs around Osiris and wrote much about him.
Therefore, according to YOUR argument, Osiris existed.
People built beliefs...
Then go ahead and produce your 39 sources of non-christian historical documents. As for not reseaching the subject, I have spent the last 40 years researching it. Historians have spent much longer than that researching it. They haven't managed to find these 'histoical non-christian documents'...
You are missing the whole point of my reply to your post. The statement that you made is not true. People DO die for myths. You said that because your apostles died for their beliefs then what they believed in must have been true. Jim Jones' followers died for their beliefs but it didn't make...
You said that people don't die for a myth. Well they do. The people I mention died for a myth. Whether you commit suicide for your beliefs or are killed by someone else for your beliefs matters not. Both are self-inflicted in a manner of speaking.
"People don't die for a lie" Really! What about:
Jim Jones: 900 died for their beliefs in his lies.
David Koresh: 90 here.
Order of the Solar Temple: 74 at this one.
Heavens Gate: 39 here............and there are many other examples. Unfortunately, many people are prepared to die for what they...
That's the $1000,000 question isn't it. The only fact is that nobody knows. Christians will believe it to be true and atheists will believe it to be fiction...........but nobody knows.
The basis for the idea that homosexuality is voluntary is extremely unconvincing. Can anyone provide any even remotely compelling argument for why a person would deliberately refrain from sexual relations with those they find attractive, and instead engage in sexual relations with those they...
IMO, Religion has limited human advancement for 2000 years and still does. I'm old enought to remember the first human heart transplant by Dr Christian Barnard, and the Christians marching in the streets chanting "Doctors must not play God".
I often wonder why many theists think that atheists have no morals.
I don't recall that it was atheists or agnostics who: flew airplanes into the WTC on 911, attacked Iraq, a nation which even President Bush recently conceded had nothing to do with 911, who launched a murderous bloody minded...
Well I wouldn't throw a street party based on dis-proving the science of the 1800's if I were you. Do you have any examples of modern day scientific research which proves the bible wrong, that has been shown to be false?