EdHieron said:
The problem with that line of reasoning is that today there is significant scholarly debate about just what Jesus himself actually left behind. There is even abundant evidence that the earliest written works about Jesus didn't even mention key details in Jesus' life including the Resurrection as well as the fact that the Gospels themselves might not be trustworthy as they were written long after the time of Jesus by people that didn't even know him and seem to add bits and pieces from the stories of several earlier gods or gurus to make Jesus appear to be more appealing than he does in earlier works like the original version of the "Gospel of Mark" ( which wasn't written until several decades after Jesus' death by someone that most scholarls at the most prestigious universities tend to agree wasn't an eyewitness to the life of Jesus) while some books that have been long suppressed like "The Gospel of Thomas" are beginning to appear as if they were written as early as any of the other Gospels yet paint an entirely different picture of Jesus. And then there's the general lack of any corroborating evidence to support anything in the Gospels from any highly regarded non-Biblical Historian that would have been near Jerusalem duing Jesus' time. Sources: "The Restored New Testament: A New Translation With Commentary, Including The Gnostic Gospels of Thomas, Mary, and Judas" By Willis Barnstone Ph. D ( http://www.amazon.com/The-Restored-New-Testament-Translation/dp/039306493X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355820375&sr=8-1&keywords=the+restored+new+testament ) "The Case Against the Case for Christ: A New Testament Scholar Refutes the Reverend Lee Strobel" by Robert M. Price Ph. D. ( http://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Christ-Testament-Reverend/dp/1578840058/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355820647&sr=1-1&keywords=the+case+against+the+case+for+christ ) "The Gnostic Gospels" by Elaine Pagels Ph. D ( http://www.amazon.com/Gnostic-Gospels-Elaine-Pagels/dp/0679724532/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355820821&sr=1-1&keywords=the+gnostic+gospels+elaine+pagels ) "The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Meditterranean Jewish Peasant" ( http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Jesus-Mediterranean-Jewish-Peasant/dp/0060616296/ref=la_B000AP7O2C_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1355821052&sr=1-2) and "The Power of Parable: How Fiction By Jesus Became Fiction About Jesus" ( http://www.amazon.com/Power-Parable-Fiction-Jesus-Became/dp/0061875694/ref=la_B000AP7O2C_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355821052&sr=1-1 ) by John Dominic Crossan Ph. D. And several books by Bart Ehrman Ph. D The James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill including "Forged: Writing in the Name of God Why The Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are" ( http://www.amazon.com/Forged-Writing-God--Why-Bibles-Authors/dp/B006QS02F8/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355821387&sr=1-5&keywords=ehrman ) and "Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed The Bible and Why" ( http://www.amazon.com/Misquoting-Jesus-Story-Behind-Changed/dp/0060859512/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1355821511&sr=1-4&keywords=ehrman ) |
I assume that you know there are equally abudant counter arguments, websites, books, etc. that couner everything you just wrote.
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