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  1. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    Why not Jesus himself? He could appear right this moment and every atheist in the world would disappear overnight. We'd all be believers. Isn't that what God the father wants--for everyone to believe in Jesus?
  2. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    That's all you've got. You say "Tacitus drew on this guy and that guy and the other guy over there" but you don't say for what in particular, and you never mention the tacitus Christians passage in association with these guys. As I said, you're just making a feeble attempt to link a bunch of...
  3. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    Thank Constantine and Theodosius for that. Had they not come along the obscure backwater abomination called Christianity would have disappeared 1500 years ago.
  4. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    Oh I thin k Baha'i is a great religion to join. None of this "Accept Baha'ullah as your personal Lord and savior or you will go to hell and burn forever" nonsense.
  5. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    Yes, the Abrahamic religions are probably the most barbaric ever invented by men.
  6. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    Especially when you look at these passages: 16 However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. 17 Completely destroy[a] them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your...
  7. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    And God had no regard for violating Pharaoh's free will in choosing to let the Israelites go. And Pharaoh decided to let them go but the Bible admits that God hardened Pharaoh's heart yet again for God's own selfish ego. Some god.
  8. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    nPeace said that it's irrelevant whether or not Tacitus had any documentation to reference when he wrote his infamous passage on the Christians. In other words, nPeace feels it would be perfectly fine for Tacitus to willy-nilly make up details on the fly when writing historical treatises--as...
  9. Thrillobyte

    Artificial Intelligence and Religion: A Discussion Initiated by GPT-4

    AI is a really dicey proposition when it comes to emotions. AI in the future may just get so intelligent (1600 x's 250 IQ by current estimates) that it may possess processes identical to human emotions. Think of Arnold at the end of Terminator 2 when he says he knows why people cry. That smacked...
  10. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    If you think Tacitus' lack of sources is irrelevant then that pretty much ends the discussion. It's been fun, Peace.
  11. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    Excellent, joel.
  12. Thrillobyte

    I was accosted by a couple of Born-again Christians while fishing

    best thing to do is just say, "Please go away." Keep repeating it.
  13. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    Why the hesitation to answer my question then: Who specifically did Tacitus get his info about the Christians from? It does no good to just refer me to a list of Roman historians from a century before. Can you give specific citations that Tacitus used to claim that Chrestus suffered the...
  14. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    What's your opinion on what Justin Martyr, your own Christian church father (100-165 CE) had to say about Jesus: “And when we say also that the Word, who is the first-birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and died, and rose again...
  15. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    Sad news. Good ol' Brother Jed--still with us in memory if not in body.
  16. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    As a Christian I used to think these blowhards from Campus Crusades were recruiting students because they really believed Jesus was the cat's meow. Now I think it's all, "you people are having too much fun. We want you to be miserable following Jesus like us." Misery does love company.
  17. Thrillobyte

    Pat Robertson is dead

    Boo-hoo!
  18. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    I want others in here to read this very excellent post from joelr ^^^^^^^^
  19. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    The gospels are NOT Jesus' words. They are words put into the mouth of Jesus by extremely educated Greek scholars up to 100 years after 30 CE, probably longer because the first copies of the gospels don't start showing up until late 2nd century. But to answer your question, yes as a Christian...
  20. Thrillobyte

    There is NO Historical Evidence for Jesus

    Yes, there's evidence. Too much to cite in fact. You can google "Evidence for Genghis Khan"
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