Mr_No said: What really gets me curious is why isn't there something from back to 2000 years ago that disproves everything described in the Bible as a farce and as an invention? |
Well there are lots of reasons for that...
1. We don't have perfect records of the past. Maybe something like that did exist.
2. It's hard, virtually impossible, to prove a negative. If I said that aliens teleported me out of my room and experimented on me, and I got my friends to attest to it, then you probably couldn't prove it wrong. It would be ridiculous, but you couldn't exactly prove it happened.
3. The Bible was written, at the earliest, 50 years after Jesus' death. Since we are talking about 2000 years ago, there were really no tools they could have used to investigate what happened. It's hard enough to investigate a crime that happened 50 years ago today, so I'm not sure why you'd expect them to be so good at it in the past.
4. Few people were there. Most scholars believe that none of the gospels were written by eye witnesses. It's really a case of he said she said.
5. It wasn't that important. To Jesus' disciples and stuff it would have been a big deal, and maybe among some of the small Jewish community. But overall, most people had no reason to care enough to do a thorough investigation, and by the time it did become a big deal, it would have been harder to investigate. And someone disproving this minor movement among the Jews wouldn't have been important enough to merit preserving.
6. It wasn't like they posted about the resurrection on their blog. The Bible was written starting at somewhere around 50CE. The printing press didn't exist until about one and a half millenia later. Very few people would have had any access to the information, and those who did would mainly have heard it orally. There wasn't much material to actually do a detailed study.
7. Mormonism was founded in 1830, and we don't have anyone who can conclusively disprove that. And this was fairly modern.
8. There are a number of things in the Bible that are untrue based on the laws of physics, biology, and common sense, but modern people still go right on believing them. Even if we uncovered a 24 hour surveilance video of Jesus' tomb and nothing unusual occured, you'd still have people insisting that he rose from the grave.
TL:DR it's incredibly hard to prove something didn't happen in the past, especially something that would have been considered trivial 2000 years in the past.