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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saying you aren’t 100% certain isn’t denying. 99.9% certain isn’t denying. 90% certain isn’t denying. 51% isn’t denying.

“Most likely” isn’t denying.

Historians weigh the available evidence and see if it points to yes or no. For most things that happened in this era there is limited information. But what we do know points to yes.

So we aren’t not talking about denying. Nobody here has denied. I was asking for evidence that “many” unbiased historians who’ve looked at available data have said they are 100% certain (as claimed earlier). It’s a tough threshold to make with limited information. 
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I asked for the link to the source that estimates Christ’s historicity between 51%-99.9% and the poster hasn’t replied with the link.

People in scholarship and academia who deny the historical certainty of Christ are non-existent in the Western world, regardless of religious affiliation, or being atheist or agnostic. [/quote]

I’ll try to find it when I’m back on my computer. And it didn’t give those %s - it said “more likely than not” which means 50.99% to 99.99%. It struck me because historians don’t seem that binary in their beliefs about this time period because there are limited primary sources.

How many nonbiased historians are 100% certain of anything from this time period?

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I’m the “more likely than not” poster and you’re correct. I never said 51-99%, that’s just fabricated. I even clarified my post to say that I meant 99.9%, with .1% uncertainty because, as you say, we can’t ever be 100% sure about anything.

Some of the atheists here are so dishonest. [/quote]

I never said you said that. I was referring to something I read elsewhere. And didn’t you originally say it was “very likely” he existed?  :roll:

Speaking of being dishonest. 
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