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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. On another thread, they were saying Jesus didn't exist. Now Abraham doesn't exist, either? [/quote]

The atheist troll's claim that Jesus didn't exist was quickly disposed of by reference to near-contemporaneous Roman sources, such as Tacitus and Suetonius.

Unfortunately, Abraham and Moses pre-dated Jesus by centuries and we don't have contemporaneous sources outside the Bible (which was probably written later, as well). Of course, that doesn't prove that Abraham or Moses didn't exist, just that we don't have non-Bliblical sources for them. 
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Here is the quote from Suetonius:
[quote]As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he expelled them from Rome.[/quote]
In this case, the belief is that Chrestus is Christ.  However, scholars have shown that Chrestus was a common name during that period.

So that proves nothing.

If Jesus was so popular, we would have more accounts of his miracles, for example.

But we don't.

And yes, there's no historical proof of Moses and Abraham.

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