nPeace
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Sorry. Your scholarship and scholars do not know anything. Those scholars sit and form opinions.You are cherry picking scholarship. The argument is historicity vs mythicism. While many scholars are moving to a mythicist position it does not matter. Those who believe historicity still know the gospel narratives are fiction.
You are using scholars who do not believe the religion is true in a dishonest way.
There are no extra biblical sources that can be shown to be corroborating the gospel narratives. They are simply sourcing what Christians believe based on the gospels. Notice in another place you claim nothing in scripture can be proven to be false. You like to use that logic when it suits you. But when we obviously cannot determine what sources a historian is using suddenly you are fine with assumption and speculation? More cherry picking.
Now everyone who disagrees with the Bible being true are some form of "Bible hater". This is cult language and cult tactics.
Instead of allowing people to evaluate facts and evidence and simply come to a conclusion based on evidence they are framed as using some sort of hate.
It can't be that the evidence demonstrated that these stories are likely to be like all other myths, nope, it's always because the person is "bashing" or undermining.
Look at all the hate speech you just used in ONE SENTENCE against anyone who may come to a different conclusion?
Extremely cult-like.
I know it's great right. Also the Mormons have all the facts thanks to Moroni. Islam also has all the facts as do Jehova's Witnesses. So does Scientology. And Baha'i and the girl on Personal Development For Smart People forum who was channeling Jesus.
You all have all the facts, wow! All different facts. But at least you are all correct.
Most Biblical narratives are also not in agreement:
"The empty tomb and the post-resurrection appearances are never directly coordinated to form a combined argument."
Vermes - The Resurrection
The theory of humans and other hominids has fossil records over millions of years? We see a slow evolution from an early hominid who walks a small amount to our closest ancestor Heidlbergensis who made tools, buried their dead and looked mostly human. In the same area we see the emergence of homo sapien.
Even if you believe that Yahweh magic powered humans from nothing that doesn't erase the fact that there were hominids slowly evolving closer and closer to homo-sapien? Do you just not know about hominid fossils or believe it's a trick by some demonic force to trick you?
They know only that they believe what they decide to. It may not even be what they say, as they are not infallible and some do lie to themselves... and others, for their own purposes.
I'm not here to say who is a liar, but sometimes we ourselves don't even know why we lie.
Some do understand later though.
The idea that all life evolve from one common ancestor, is the engine of the body of "evidence" you mentioned.
Just take the idea away, and the body of evidence is empty.
Now taking a look at the body, place an engine in that fits.
The body of evidence is there - hasn't gone anywhere, but it takes a different road. It tells a different story.
Would you be surprised if another hypothesis becomes a contender to the one that's currently reigning champion?
I wouldn't. That's how it goes, when ideas are proposed, and you have no option but to go with the one you think is best...
Unless... Hmm.
If you believe that forming ideas about what happened, by making assumptions, and forming conclusions, based on those assumptions, makes something factual or believable, then can you please explain why you are against people who do the same thing, where the Bible is concerned?
In other words, why are you against those who don't accept your ideas and opinions?