Did Jesus Exist? by Bart Ehrman

I suppose next you'll say there's no evidence of Santa Claus. Man, I sat on that dude's lap when I was 4!

Oh, that happens to me too!

You say little evidence, but it seems to me like no physical evidence at all. There's no Jesus lived here signs, there no independent evidence that the character that was the model for Jesus was anything but fictional. Historians of the time documented other obscure preacher characters but never even mentioned Jesus in passing.You would think someone would have noticed a white man preaching to a dark skinned culture and contemporary scribes would have mentioned it. Yeah, we've seen numerous visionaries here at EvC, Phat, Dredge, ICANT, candle2. Humans are very good at imagining voices in their heads and it seldom seems to make their lives better.

Yep, my only point was really that there is less than a little evidence. I shouldn't have said anymore than that.

Exactly! Fiction is the operational term here. The bible is fiction and there is no independent verifiable evidence that Jesus was not a fictional character. If there was everyone would know by now.The thing that's odd to me is seeing people who don't believe in Jesus and who know there is no evidence are using the same arguments as creationists and pretending that no evidence is actually evidence. These are the same meaningless arguments GDR uses when he knows there is not a shred of evidence, but he wants to rationalize his beliefs.There is NO verifiable evidence that Jesus was a real person.

Since we don't have an adequate explanation for their source or basis, I don't see how making up an explanation helps. Yes!

I think this must be his strategy: saturation bombing forums with his drivel and he occasionally makes a sale. They can add up, I think there's an Audible version as well. I looked it up on Amazon and probably contaminated my online footprint, but the religious nutters lose interest in me pretty fast...

Yep, I had forgotten that every single discussion with him morphs into indecipherable gobbledygook. I started asking for clarification and lost track of the point immediately. I don't think it's possible to have a coherent conversation with him. It's like Percy said, it's trying to interpret reality looking at the reflection in pieces of a broken mirror.

Well, most of us here seem to quickly find what you write completely indecipherable, so we quit in frustration, and your behavior becomes more and more trollish. We seem to be able to communicate with each other clearly, but we're all increasingly confused by what you write. Sorry, but that is our reality, confusion when we try to talk with you.

Yep, I was giving you MY interpretation of MY interactions with you and MY interpretations of your behavior with other participants here at EvC. Most of who, I don't know who you mean. I was commenting on how discussions with with you always go, NOT how much knowledge any participants posses. Well, that explains why you resort to insults and name calling when we cannot follow your argument or refuse to follow you down obscure rabbit holes. Because I cannot understand what you are talking about, and I rapidly lose interest in your insults. That's because since I could not understand you, so I did not know you presented any evidence. Well, here I was not debating at all, because I was commenting on your repeated behavior in every debate topic I have seen you participating in. If you don't like what people have to say, the solution is simple, ignore them, don't engage with them.Every time you show up here you have a massive chip on your shoulder, why bother if you despise us that much?And BTW is there any subject that you are not the absolute top planetary expert in?