bounty44 -> RE: Are Science and Religion incompatible? (1/18/2017 4:19:01 PM)
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realone, there is nothing that can be said from a rational standpoint that will convince mnottertroll. he's a spiritually blind reprobate and he's not seeking. and for others to believe that jesus didn't even exist, its the height of absurdity and close to the above. that said, ive got a passage in a book called "why I believe" that has a chapter in it about "why I believe in Christ." here are excerpts from it: "Christianity is the only religion in the world that is based upon historic evidences...The evidence for jesus Christ is absolutely overwhelming. no one can disbelieve in Christ because of a lack of evidence. "the legendary, or mythical, theory of Christ's existence is not held by any one worthy of the name scholar. the historical evidences of Christ's existence are so much greater than those in support of any other event in ancient history... "the testimony of the gospel historians is far more accurate and detailed than that of any secular historian... "some people suppose that, other than the gospels, no ancient writer mentions jesus Christ. they are quite wrong...tacitus, the roman historian; Suetonius; pliny the younger; Epictetus; Lucian; Aristides; galenus; lampridius; diocassius; hinnerius; libanius; ammianus; marcellinus; eunapius; zosimus... "pontius pilate, procurator of Judea who condemned Christ to death, wrote of those extraordinary activities to Tiberius Caesar in a well-known account that has been referred to by several other historic personages....in this long report, after describing the miracles of Christ, pilate states "and him herod...and annas and Caiaphas, with all the people, delivered to me, making a great uproar against me that I should try him. I therefore ordered him to be crucified..."[he goes on to talk about the supernatural occurences coincident with Christ's death that are recorded in scripture.] [in reference to the above] "another secular writer, thallus, in AD 52, writes about the sun's failure to give light from noon until three o'clock. "Julian the apostate endeavored to destroy Christianity. he wrote a whole book against it, but in that book, instead of destroying Christianity, he affirms that jesus was born in the reign of augustus at the time of the taxing made in Judea by cyrenius....he affirms the authenticity of the gospels...as the authentic sources of the Christian religion. this same Julian went to Jerusalem to disprove the bible, but he failed. " "many other writers have spoken of Christ. josephus, the famous jewish historian, tells us that there arose at this time a great man, whom the leaders of his people had put to death by pilate, and this was the Christ. " p-94-99. and a little about the new testament from "many infallible proofs" "one of the greatest new testament scholars of our generation was sir Frederic Kenyon, director of the british museum...Kenyon said after an extensive review of the manuscript evidence [5000 manuscript copies of portions of the new testament in greek, and at least 15,000 more in other languages] 'it is reassuring at the end to find that the general result of all these discoveries and all this study is to strengthen the proof of the authenticity of the scriptures, and our conviction that we have in our hands in substantial integrity, the veritable word of god.'" and elsewhere "the interval, then, between the dates of the original composition (the apostles) and the earliest extant evidence (the apostolic fathers) becomes so small as to be in fact negligible, and the last foundation for any doubt that the scriptures have some down to us substantially as they were written has now been removed. both the authenticity and the general integrity of the books of the new testament may be regarded as finally established." p-33-34 so please...
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