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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You must know about oral tradition, yes?  Look at the Greek and Roman myths that were passed down orally.

Again, if these miracles did indeed occur, we would have witnesses - however many people removed from the actual events.

sorry - I prefer fact over faith.  [/quote]

Really? If somebody told me orally about the Declaration of Independence, I shouldn't believe them until I go to the National Archives and see the document for myself? So if my friend or DH told me orally about 9/11, I shouldn't believe it until I visit the WTC site, even if it requires time travel back to 2001?  If somebody tells me orally about something but I can't find a piece of paper to prove it, I should assume they made it up? Is this how you operate when somebody tells you something?

The gospels are exactly the witnesses you say you are looking for. In your own words, they are "witnesses, however many people removed from the actual events."

So then you say you want non-Christian sources who write about the miracles as if they actually happened. But by definition, non-Christians don't believe in the miracles, so they aren't going to write about them.

So basically, you've set up this "gotcha" list of demands that's non-sensical as well as self-contradictory. Do you understand that, or is this just what you do for fun because you have nothing else to do? [/quote]

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