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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It seems odd that one would reject the Gospels as not being eyewitness accounts just because there weren't MORE eyewitness accounts than the ones we have.[/quote]

The idea is to corroborate what's said in the Bible with an outside source. Just the Bible (or any story book) saying that it's a true story doesn't make it true. It could just be a trick for the gullible.  But that doesn't matter to people who believe everything in the Bible just because its the Bible[/quote]

First PP is the one making sense here. There ARE multiple contemporaneous sources, that the gospels consolidated. The ARE outside sources (the aforementioned Tacitus, et cetera) who don't mention the miracles because, you know, these are outside sources, which means they weren't part of the community of believers and either hadn't personally witnesssed the miracles, or were generally writing from the Roman perspective, or both.

Also, lots of documents from that era were lost, which should be so obvious it doesn't need to be stated, but perhaps it does need to be stated here. Where the gospels are concerned, there's a theory that there was a Q source, for example, but we don't have that earlier source.

Anyway, thanks second PP, for reminding me that banalities for the sake of just continuing to argue are why I try to stay off this forum.

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