Re: SO MANY GODS
bob young wrote:
duke wrote:
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 11:03:52 -0800 (PST), SkyEyes <skyeyes9@xxxxxxx> wrote:
There is *no* empirical or historical evidence that Jesus is anything
other than a fictional character (probably an amalgam created from the
personas of several itinerant first-century Jewish preachers).
He's historical. As evidenced by scripture and the many writings of others from
the time period.
These writings were done hundreds of years later than the claimed time, excatly
when, is unknown.
The first Bible of the kind you rely on possibly appeared around 1400.
Words from such a book are NOT evidence
duke, American-American
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