Ok, here is something for you gentleman to have a think about....
Skeptics such as yourselves have been around since humanity began.
Meaning, skeptics were around the time of Jesus and obviously after.
Here is the question. Why arent their any counter claims / writings at the time of Jesus or just after when the Gospels were being written?
Think of this. At the time of Jesus and just after when the gospels were written, we saw a transformation of scoeity based on these gospels. That is, the construction and establishment of Churches, persecution of Gospel followers, people devoting their lives to the gospel, ie, Priests , bishops etc etc....
So, if you are a skeptic at that time, society is changing. As a skeptic, wouldnt you go and INVESTIGATE the claims being made in the gospels?
The first gospels were written approx 50 years after the crucifixion,
Why did it take so long for them to be written is a better question
you would think someone would write about a person rising from the dead a lot sooner
therefore, many if not all of the people mentioned in the gospels, WERE STILL around, or most definitly there children....
THis is made much more easier as it was a small country town where the majority of people knew each other, , ie, not like NYC people know only a small percentage of each other...
Here is an example. We know about the story of Elizabeth and her husband Lazarus who Jesus raised from the dead. If you are a skeptic, read this, and people started to change their lives based on this....wouldnt you as a skeptic go to Elizabeth or at least her children and ask if it really happened? Or what about the claim that Jesus fed 5000 people with fish and bread?
These are claims that around the time of the gospels were written would be well known facts TO EVERYONE.......yet if not true,
WHY WASNT THEIR ANYONE, ESPECIALLY skeptics investigating these many claims and documented these?
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