kirk cameron
Out of context: Reply #99
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jakeyj:
"Besides its full of details that no one would include if they were making it up." You've never read any (intentional) fiction at all, have you? _LotR_, and thousands of other books, are crammed full of details, including invented languages. I guess it's all real too!
"...but in the gospels, it says that mary was the first one to witness the empty tomb. how much more damaging to your story (at that time) could anything be?" Three contradictory accounts of who was there and when, that's pretty damaging for a so-called historically accurate document.
"The life of Jesus is also chronicled in many other famous writers at the time, most notably josephus and plinny the younger." Pliny the Younger was born 30 years after Jesus died, Josephus about 4 years -- hardly living eye witnesses, they could only chronicle what others claimed happened. And there's compelling evidence that Josephus' "golden paragraph" was added years (as many as 300, the reign of Constantine) later.
Sorry.