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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even Bart Ehrman says: "Paul knew Jesus' brother, James, and he knew his closest disciple, Peter, and he tells us that he did," Ehrman says. "If Jesus didn't exist, you would think his brother would know about it, so I think Paul is probably pretty good evidence that Jesus at least existed."
https://www.npr.org/2012/04/01/149462376/did-jesus-exist-a-historian-makes-his-case

Ehrman also says this: But how can you make a convincing case if we’re talking about thirty or so independent sources that know there was a man Jesus?  These sources are not all living in the same village someplace so they are egging each other on. They didn’t compare notes. They are independent of one another and are scattered throughout the Mediterranean.  They each have heard about the man Jesus from their own sources of information, which heard about him from their own sources of information. https://ehrmanblog.org/gospel-evidence-that-jesus-existed/[/quote]

Bumping this again because atheist pp’s seem desperate to get away from it, with endless gish-galloping into the meanings of words like “probability” and “scholar.”[/quote]

I've responded to it twice. You seem desperate to get away from my responses.

Again...your quotes: 
[i]"Paul is [u]probably pretty good [/u]evidence"

"They each have heard about ... which heard about him from their own sources"[/i]

Again...my response:
"probably pretty good evidence" is not definitive. Not 100%.

So none of the "sources" were eyewitnesses. They only "knew" thirdhand information, at best.

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And Ehrman is more definitive in other sources that were posted above. He started one blog saying “Jesus existed.”

He has called deniers “mythologists” and “

You keep coming back to this single, and apparently unrepresentative, Ehrman quote because everything else he says contradicts you. [/quote]

Sorry, hit submit while I was going back to look for the quotes. But you get the gist and you can go back on this thread for the quotes. Ehrman has no doubt that Jesus existed. [/quote]

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