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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whoever made the Greek analogy- it is dumb.  Greek mythology is an expansive set of stories for which there is no archaeological proof.  The existence of Jesus is far less tenuous than that of God’s flying around with lightning bolts.

And there is a contemporary witness to Jesus- Paul. [b] Paul claims to have met Jesus after Jesus’ resurrection[/b].  He wrote about it extensively.  So I guess if that is the proof you are looking for it exists.[/quote]

Right - " Paul claims"and two thousand years later, some people use it as a reason to believe.

Believe if you want, but Paul's claim is not proof -- it is a claim - a very ancient one that cannot and hasn't been proven.  It's lke an auto insurance claim that isn't accepted and paid until the adjuster sees for themselves that your fender is bent.

Maybe some people's faith is built on or bolstered by thinking that ancient claims about Jesus are factual.  Maybe such people once seriously doubted their faith, but found it renewed after learning more about the historical Jesus.  If so, I'd say their faith is on very shaky ground.[/quote]

[b]So you say you want a contemporary witness and then you call that contemporary witness a dubious claim.
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Whatever.  Believe what you want.  But please stop pretending that you have some sort of intellectual rationale here.[/quote]

I'm not that poster you're responding to, but you are incorrect that Paul was a "contemporary witness to Jesus." Paul never met Jesus.  He did hear voices when he had his "vision" on the road to Damascus, but we have only his word for that. [b] It could have been the hot sun, who knows? [/b] But visions like that are the stuff of many religious experiences, that's all.[/quote]

Or he could have been epileptic, or schizophrenic. [/quote]

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