On 12/27/2017 8:17 AM, juan wrote:
yes - we - John and me - already discussed what sort of lying joke wikipedia is.
Yes, Wikipedia lies all the time, but what in this case Wikipedia does is list a pile of historical evidence for Jesus the man, which evidence you keep saying does not exist. So you have to refute that evidence, not just issue links to articles that deny the evidence exists. And, just as the general circumstances make it inevitable that someone like Pontius Pilate must have existed, the general circumstances make it inevitable that someone like Jesus the man must have existed. They don't make it inevitable, or even probable, that he rose from the dead etc, but they do make it inevitable that a prophet, indeed more than one prophet, would arise, and criticize the Jewish religious establishment for legalism and hypocrisy, and get executed for that.