In answer to points 3, 4 and 5. The first council of Nicea was, in part, formulated to resolve the problems of the Arian crisis, which arose because...
No, all three do not confirm his existence. A hypothetical to demonstrate my point - If Richard Carrier is correct, and Jesus did not exist, then...
According to this site, yes. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/archeology-hebrew-bible.html It appears Judaism started to develop shortly before...
Indeed. I was going to add something similar but was distracted by work.
Ha, the usual suspects. One of the problems is, they all agree with the bible, they don't tell us anything new. The second and related problem is,...
Some of it is pure fiction, some of it is fiction based on real events and people. It is not historically reliable.
That will be Ron Wyatt, who also claimed to have found Noah's Ark in Turkey, and the Ark of the covenant in Jerusalem, in a cave under where Jesus...
On the contrary, I find religion interesting from a scientific point of view, and Christianity in particular from an historical one. Spirituality...
Luke's The Rich Man and Lazarus story has the rich man suffering in Hades after his death. He asks Abraham to send Lazarus, who is also dead, to go...
Photographs taken in the UV area of the spectrum indicate that the image is similar to the scorch marks from the 1532 fire, suggesting heat possibly...
The problem is that the story of Jesus is so full of myths taken from the Old Testament, that even if he did exist, we will not be able to get to the...
The problem with this is the eyes on the shroud are higher than normal, they are around 66% up the face of Jesus instead of the more normal 50% of...
If Thallus wrote about an event in 52 AD, that means he wrote after that date, not on it. So that gives you a dubious 52AD to 180 AD. As he appears...
I haven't read it, because the hard sell was in depth enough for me I could see some of the problems. For me, the problem with Atwill's theory is...
There are two references to Jesus by Josephus. The first is the Testimonium Flavianum (TF), the one that gives us details about Jesus. You can go...
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