Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?

[Zack Williamson]

@pe7erpark3r
@pe7erpark3r said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@Vex-Man said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

But the Bible says even Christians do not know how to pray.---- In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. (Romans 8:26)

Correct, the bible says that the spirit will help you pray.

Yeah and what is the proof of holy spirit ?

You wrote a verse written by Paul. That is nice but Paul himself originally never wrote Jesus’ story in his gospel. The original gospels have been changed according to time for editing and improving the omissions by the transcribers. It was added in the medieval time. Btw Paul himself never met with Jesus -
Saul got up from the ground, but when he opened his eyes he could see nothing. So they led him by the hand into Damascus. (Acts 9:8), The Jewish name of Saulus was Paul.

But Paul met and spoke with those who did.

Paul was an unknown writer. You need to mention some verse for your argument. Even if granted there was a verse. I already stated law of contradiction makes statement false. I really wrote in bold texts for indicating this rule.

But the Bible states nobody has ascended into the heaven - No man hath ascended up to heaven.” Not even Enoch or Elijah? (John 3:13).

And the bible states that the heavenly kingdom is among them in Jesus Christ.

Which verse says so ? Could you please mention any verse ? Law of contradiction makes statement false.

But the Bible states we should not follow our hearts-
Seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring (Num 15:39)
And Lamentations 3:18 and 3:44 state he doesn’t listen to your prayers until you don't cover out yourself from clouds
Even when I call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer. (Lamentations 3:18 NIV)
You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through (Lamentations 3:44 NIV)

I followed my heart and found Batman in it. Yes I meditated on Batman’s comic book to make sense out of it. Thank you. Second point- a preposition must be true, if there is no contradiction in it. It is one law of logic.

You do not believe in batman to be real.

I believe in batman. How would you know I am lying or not ?

You did not find batman in your heart the same way we did find Christ...

I found batman into my heart. How can you refute this claim ?

Burden* Probabilities*
Ad-hominem argument. First respect you opponent and then you may debate.

I am very sorry. You are absolutely right. I should not have said it in this way...

to say people who cannot be proven to have existed with absolute certainty did not exist.

I said theistic God (with certain properties) does not exist with absolute certainty (in that debate, not this one). God of philosophy is different from God of religion. However, you have always inserted your christian God into a philosophical God.

Lets not return to the other discussion please. In this discussion the christians have spoken of the God of religion, and we spoke of Him in the language of religion, for this is how you can find Him.

You were talking about God of religion. The whole topic was made on a philosophical God. And here we are talking about Jesus did not exist as a person or not. However I repeat myself- I said a philosophical God did not exist in that debate with absolute certainty. I stick with thesis and I hope you will not misinterpret it. I wont misinterpret it either.

The main proof can be fossil evidence of him. 95 percent of humans existed- we can date their dead bodies with several scientific methods. We have dated 4 billion years ago paintings and our ancestors’ fossils too. We could date his fossil which existed 2000 years ago. Of course scientists have not found any fossil evidence of him- https://medium.com/predict/the-fossil-argument-for-the-existence-of-a-historical-jesus-11d7cdd4a5e7

This article argues that the people saying "Jesus does not exist" are making a positive claim and thus have the burden of proof. So yeah, good article.

He thinks negative claim is positive claim. But he did not say he is logically correct. Because negative claim talks about non-existence of someone as per as Wikipedia article states. Indeed, I apologize for sending incorrect weblink.

So I'll say again what I said before: you cannot expect to find a lot of documents on Jesus, because he was not at all a big political figure.
You never said to me so. Maybe you said to someone else. You are debating with me rn, not with ‘someone else’.

Woops sorry, that was in the topic's draft only. My mistake. I deleted that...

Fine.

Point holds however: it cannot be expected to find much: Jesus was a relatively unknown figure in the roman empire... even many of the prominent figures in the Israel of that time are not mentioned in non-religious texts, and they also existed. Many high priests of Israel are not mentioned at all, there names are all lost. And yet they were the most prominent political figures at their times...

Your argument is not hold sound. Can you please cite one contemporary name when Jesus existed ? I said please. Can you please name those Israel priests ? Can you please name one political figure of that era ?

And the documents that existed are lost in 2000 years of history. You simply cannot expect to find much other than religious texts.

There will be no reason to debate on this topic if we do not find anything else than his religious texts.

Yes, a religious text is enough for a debate about wether the person existed, but there is a lot more.

A comic is enough for a debate about whether the batman existed, but there is a lot more.

This is history. History is not science. Sadly :joy:

A straw-man argument. You cannot refute your own claim. I never said history is/was science or vice-versa. An evidence is something which can be provided for supporting one’s assertion in any type of debate.

Yes, but you will not find proof of many many historical events. Evidence yes. Proof no. And for many many historical events you will find an utter lack of evidence other than religious texts...

It is not my fault if he has lack evidences other than his religious texts. Show a single evidence first.

So consequently, even if you were right, that Jesus was added to Josephus Flavius writings and Tacitus writings, your claim that He did not exist is at best circumstancial.

Circumstantial*

Wehuuweehuu grammar police :yum:

you bear the burdon of proof.

I repeat myself- you started the debate with your assertion, I didn’t. I hold the negative position- Jesus did not historically existed. You cannot shift this burden towards me and it is argument from ignorance. You think your thesis is true because it is not proved to be false (supposedly). Until he is not proved true, it is reasonable to say that he did not exist.

No, there is enough evidence of him in the religious texts. It is reasonable to think he exists, since quite a few other clearly historical figures wrote religious texts about him. It is not true, that a religious text cannot count as evidence.

However I concede that it is reasonable to say he did not exist after providing good arguments as to why the religious texts are not enough evidence.

Religious texts are not even a claim, forget about the evidence. Come on. A book like the bible is not even a weak evidence for someone’s existence. Batman, Spiderman, Superman all those characters have books. We do not say they are “not enough evidences”. There is no evidence of them.

I would even say that the history that follows after Jesus death allows me to say, There is so much literature on him, so many people who follow his teachings, not only in the roman empire,

There are more than 12 Gods who were born on the same day of Jesus. And those birth of all 12 Gods were celebrated by the Romans. Romans followed their teachings too.

Yeah, they follow somebody's teachings about those Gods, which tend to be hundreds of years old. They did not follow a person's teaching, who lived only a few decades ago.

“A few decades ago” - here is a gap man. Thank you for describing it.

but also in the holy land, which is basically christian after the Jews are driven out by the romans in 70 AD. There is so much reason to assume that Jesus was indeed historical, simply by the impact he had in isreal alone,

Israel*

Israel is just as an ambivalent term as holy land. People know what holy land means. You know what it means. I will continue to use this term.

Argument from popularity - Impact never shows his existence. Non-impact of someone can show his existence too.
Yes I know what holy land stands for. Impact in Israel in 70 AD :joy: . Mesopotamian, Greek civilizations are so much older than your holy site.

Take one particularly weird-beard example, Spiritualism in the 19th century. This séance-and-ectoplasm set gained 3 million followers in the United States in just ten years; 13 by comparison it took Christianity nearly two hundred years to
come anywhere close.

Go back to more past (in 4th to 5th centuries). There were some non-orthodox religions which could not reside with Christianity. The scriptures of those religions (awesome books especially in 4th to 5th century) were not copied or destroyed by the Christians. In the fourth century, under the rule of Constantine, his opponents were compelled by threat of death and prison or by dispossession to fall in line.
https://web.archive.org/web/20190723132715/https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/13812

So? Seems off-topic to me.

that you need to find more than just the lack of mentioning him in official roman writers, to say he did not exist.

Did they even mention originally ? Cite a credible website for your claim ‘original lack of mentioning’.

"Lack of mention" means that he wasn't mentioned. It is your argument that there is a lack of mention, not mine. I allowed this claim, despite not agreeing. And I said even if it was true, this is not enough.

I gave you six reasons. However, you chose only one reason. Why though ? Did you fall in love with one ? :joy:

Unless you don't learn how to respect someone, I cannot debate. Therefore, I leave both debates.

I am very sorry for my use of the word insane. I need to learn to not use such harsh language. It is not just insulting, but an exaggeration too. Exaggeration is a rhetorical trick, and as you know I despise those. Sadly its an old habit of mine to speak like this (also about myself) so please forgive.

Apologies accepted man. I am sorry for misinterpreting my thesis because you might have misunderstood my position (certainty one). I had no right to make anyone's fun. I am really sorry man.

@pe7erpark3r said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

One of the main reasons to why there is today (almost) a scientific consensus that Jesus was a historical figure is an archeological one: that there have been found many many christian house churches in Israel from the first century .

This means, that people who heard little of St. Paul, believed in christ. Many of them have propably known Jesus in person, or at least their parents have.

Oh scientific consensus ! What is the proof of that scientific consensus ? Scientific consensus are never based on argument from ignorance.

People had made a lot of temples for their Greek gods, Persian Gods, Egyptian Gods before the birth of Jesus. All have same stories like him. I described you so many Gods. I copy your argument for humor :joy:

One of the main reasons to why there is today (almost) a scientific consensus that hermes, Krishna, promenthus, Osiris/Serapis, Inanna/Ishtar, Horus, Perseus, Bacchus/Dionysus, Attis, Isis, Hermes, Romulus, Adonis, Hercules/Heracles, Zalmoxis, Tammuz, Asclepius, Krishna, and Prometheus were a historical figure are an archaeological one: that there have been found many many Persian/Greek/Egyptian house prayer-places, temples in many places before the birth of Jesus. Again popularity cannot and never justify truth and reason

Saint Paul himself never met with your Jesus (who existed on this earth). He knew Jesus thru his revelations only. Many of them have probably known Jesus as a person or at least their parents have. - What is the proof of it ? - You have to be sure. It is an argument from probability.

As Mr. Carrier states, "archeological evidence secures the case: throughout Palestine, vast amounts of material evidence unmistakably document Jewish occupation and there is considerable evidence of pagan inhabitants but there is no material evidence of any Christian population until centuries later. “In fact, only in the third century does material evidence of a Christian presence anywhere in the Empire begin to match that of even minor pagan cults."

Mr. Saint Paul had schizophrenia. A physiological disordered person did spread rumor in a semi-illiterate society.

If he did never exist, such a presence of believers in the holy land during the first century is inexplicable.

Before the execution of Christians and in 4 to 5th centuries their (Persian, Greek, Egyptian gods) scriptures were burnt off. The Opponents and religion people of those Persian, Greek and Egypt mythologies and non-orthodox competing christian versions were compelled by threat of death and prison, or of dispossession to fall in line Under the rule of Roman Constantine. This is how the huge followers of mr. Christ came. You cannot even name a single eye witness.
By the way they belonged to a semi-illiterate society. It was an era of rumors and fake news. Therefore it was easy to gain followers thru threats and thru no-education.

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@pe7erpark3r said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@Vex-Man said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

Here is what Josephus wrote-
18.3.3 — “About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man.
For he was one who performed surprising deeds and was a teacher of such people as accept the
truth gladly. He won over many Jews and many of the Greeks. He was the Messiah. And when,
upon the accusation of the principal men among us, Pilate had condemned him to a cross, those
who had first come to love him did not cease. He appeared to them spending a third day restored
to life, for the prophets of God had foretold these things and a thousand other marvels about him.
And the tribe of the Christians, so called after him, has still to this day not disappeared.”

First let me quote wikipedia on the testamonium flavianum:

The first and most extensive reference to Jesus in the Antiquities, found in Book 18, states that Jesus was the Messiah and a wise teacher who was crucified by Pilate. It is commonly called the Testimonium Flavianum. Almost all modern scholars reject the authenticity of this passage in its present form, while the majority of scholars nevertheless hold that it contains an authentic nucleus referencing the execution of Jesus by Pilate, which was then subject to Christian interpolation and/or alteration. The exact nature and extent of the Christian redaction remains unclear, however.

I agree with this definition. I too am convinced, that Flavius Josephus did not believe in Jesus to be the messiah.

Also it says about ‘interpolations’. Did you check which ones ? Interpolations include non-Josephean vocabulary and misuse of terms. Whole passage had interpolations. None had not listened the name of testimonium since 300 years. Whole testimonium was manipulated in 4th century.

The book was written on 93-94 AD. Jesus died on AD 33. Oh ! 60 years gap. Why did not he write his books 60 years ago though ? He was certainly not an eye-witness. Josephus was born on 37CE. It means he was not even born when Jesus died. :joy: Since we got to know there was a gap he was alleged for spreading the rumors thru oral traditions- Dupuis wrote about him: "Tacitus says what the legend said." In 117 A.D. Tacitus could only know about Christ by what reached him from Christian or intermediate circles. He merely reproduced rumors

20.9.1 — “...brought before them the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was
James...”
The point should be noted the phrase “was called Christ” is awful and some transcriber inserted it. The later lines which Josephs referred to Jesus was the son of Damneus. That sentences looks like a christian was hoping to prove that Jesus existed.

The phrase "who was called Christ" is a perfectly common phrase. And this is why (quoting wiki again:)

Modern scholarship has largely acknowledged the authenticity of the second reference to Jesus in the Antiquities, found in Book 20, Chapter 9, which mentions "the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James." This reference is considered to be more authentic than the Testimonium.

Josephus, when he wrote the Antiquities of the Jews in 93-94 AD, clearly must have known about Christians, if not Jesus himself, since there is enough (archeological + other) evidence that they were present in Israel. If he didn't mention Christians at all, that would have to be considered unbelievable.

Sir, how you are even arguing here ? Only some scholars do agree with this paragraph’s authenticity. This chapter was originally written in 93-94 AD which was later interpolated. He never used the term Christ or messiah. He used charlatan term for all false messiahs which he described. Even thou he had a personal messiah named Empire Vespasian. Neither of these passages is found in the original version of the Jewish Antiquities which was preserved by the Jews. The first passage (XVII, 3, 3) was quoted by Eusebius writing in c. 320 C.E., so we can conclude that it was added in some time between the time Christians got hold of the Jewish Antiquities and c. 320 C.E. It is not known when the other passage (XX, 9, 1) was added... Neither passage is based on any reliable sources. It is fraudulent to claim that these passages were written by Josephus and that they provide evidence for Jesus. They were written by Christian redactors and were based purely on Christian belief.
. Josephus was a writer of Rome, not was of Israel. Btw there was no such word like 'Christianity' in that era. https://relevantmagazine.com/god/where-christian-name-really-came/

There was never ever a “tribe of Christians”

The name christian was first used in a derogatory way to denote the followers of Christ who did not acknowledge the emperor of Rome. With this in mind it becomes clear why Flavius Josephus – who did not believe in Christ to be the messiah – could use the term in this way. He too saw Jesus as a nobody, and he spoke in the language that the people of his time used. Tribe of Christians sounds rather derogatory in my ears, so it fits the idea.

He did not even mention Christ or messiah. Tribe of Christianity was related to an ethnic insult, not a religious insult. According to you, Josephus did contempt Christianity but why he could contempt to a race/tribe ?

Eusebius studied Josephus diligently, and could thus masquerade as he, except when he used the word 'tribe' to describe the Christians. All the literature from the Ante-Nicene Fathers show they never used the word 'tribe' or 'race' with reference to the Christians, was [sic] either by the Fathers or when they quoted non-Christian writers. Tertullian, Pliny the Younger, Trajan, Rufinus--none use 'tribe' to refer to Christians. Eusebius is the first to start the practice.

If you did read his texts carefully, you would know his texts were out of the context. There was a paragraph around his texts and it really interrupts his story line. This is how next paragraph begins from, "About the same time also another sad calamity put the Jews into disorder...". It was referred to the previous paragraph in which Pilate along with his soldiers did massacre of Jews in Jerusalem

In the whole chapter (and the paragraph before) Josephus speaks about Pilates' reign in Jerusalem, and the things he dealt with. Thus speaking about Jesus at this place makes perfect sense. And to introduce the next important event during Pilates' time with "About the same time..." makes perfect sense. Of course I acknowledge that "another sad calamity" might still belong to the christian addition. Also a backreference to two or three paragraphs before is a perfectly normal thing.

About the same time also another sad calamity put the Jews into disor- der.” Another sad calamity? But what sad calamity? Josephus has just presented a commercial for Jesus, not a sad calamity! I hope you know we use another when we had mentioned one sad calamity. Without the Testimonium passage, the two passages flanking it flow seamlessly into each other. This fact alone is a tremendous indication that the passage is entirely fraudulent. this passage does not appear until the 4th century. For the first 300 years of its existence, there is no mention of the Testimonium anywhere. His books were popular in whole Europe. 12 guys never mentioned this passage but they gave a lot damn about mr. Josephus- Justin Martyr, Theophilus Antiochenus, Melito of Sardis, Minucius Felix, Irenaeus, Clement of Alex- andria, Julius Africanus, Pseudo-Justin, Tertullian,
Hippolytus, Origen, Methodius and Lactantius. Origen had never heard of the Testimonium either.
Regrading Pilate thing, none of the contemporary Roman shows that Pilate execute a guy named Jesus.

Josephus did write about minor-minor people of his time extensively. A single paragraph written on Messiah is impossible.

As said before, I do agree with the majority of scholars that Josephus did not believe in Jesus to be the messiah, nor consider him to be of great importance.

The point is not, he was a big figure. I said he wrote things about minor-minor people extensively.
Even though if he was a minor Guy/ non-reputed guy, Josephus must have written extensively about him.

Here have a logical proof-
Premise 1- Josephus wrote extensive things about minor-minor people.
Premise 2- Jesus was a minor people (your premise with -nor consider him to be of great importance.)
Conclusion- Josephus wrote extensive things about Jesus.
Conclusion is not true. He did not write about him extensively.

These are the persons who did not even write testionium flavium word- However they wrote about Josephus but did not about Jesus’ passage-

1. Justin Martyr (c. 100-c. 165)- He pored over Josephes’ work
2. Theophilus (d. 180),- Bishop of Antioch and more
   You can find my sources from here- http://www.truthbeknown.com/josephus.htm

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@Kaneki-kun @Kaneki-kun
Every religion perform miracles too
Why should anyone believe Jesus Christ as their only Lord and Saviour?
People can't just believe Jesus just like that the same way you can't just believe Islam is the only true religion and whoever disbelieves Islam , will definitelt go to hell .
Question is how in the hell can you find the ultimate truth of the Afterlife in this finite moment of life? Would you believe that Islam is only true and Christians are false?
What if Christianity was wrong? What if Islam was wrong? What if you're all wrong? Cause there are many other religions out there telling the same thing.. Rewards and Punishment.
If God gave us freewill? And Hell really exist? Why prison exists in this so much called intelligent well designed world?

[adolf lim]

umm there are also historical texts aside from the Bible that supports the existence of Jesus. Some of these authors are non-Christians like the Roman Senator Tacitus. He recorded the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate.

[Zack Williamson]

@pe7erpark3r said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@Kaneki-kun said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@pe7erpark3r

I said kjv cuz compared to niv, nlt, and some translations there's no omission of verses. But yeah, when you experience Jesus and the Spirit of God personally into your life you don't need any philosopher, google, pastor or whatever to give you proves.

Yes, you should always get a translation that is close to the original! And if you want to compare biblehub.com's interlinear translation is a good place to get a feeling of what's really written in the original greek or hebrew text.

And just a note for @Vex-Man who always claims that we have no orginal of the bible: We have texts (in and out of the bible) that are 3000 years old and have been copied over the centuries. And the mistakes that are introduced over so many years are minuscule. So we can rely around 99.9% on the Greek texts we have of the bible.

You did not provide any evidence for your belief. Original books were never present with Greek words. In the third century, a team of Jews translated it into Greek. Original Bible was Hebrew Bible, not Greek one. Greek language is far different from Hebrew. There was never ever first Bible. By the way, The Bible has 500 contradictions, omissions, errors and most important changes.

Even if it is granted, there was a first edition of Bible, it does not justify someone's existence because whole Bible is full of lies and foolishness-

Premise no.1- Whatever the Bible says, is true
Premise no. 2- The Bible says pigs fly
Conclusion- Pigs fly, is true

[Zack Williamson]

@adolf-lim said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

umm there are also historical texts aside from the Bible that supports the existence of Jesus. Some of these authors are non-Christians like the Roman Senator Tacitus. He recorded the execution of Jesus by Pontius Pilate.

And yes, The first edition of Bible never ever existed on this earth. The whole book is interpolated more than 1000 times. This book is full of contradiction, errors and most important changes.

Recorded ? Jesus died on AD 30 and Tacitus was born on 56 AD. That means he was not even born when Jesus died. He wrote Annals in 116 AD. 116- 30= 86 years gap wow !

Edited- Tecitus wrote about “christos” (in 117 CE) and christos were being executed by Pilate. He could have used name ‘Jesus’ but not his religious title ‘Christos’. The second point you could note is, the reference of Tacitus’ was never mentioned by Origen, Eusebius, Tertullian in 3rd century. Tertullian was the one who quoted Tacitus’ great deal. I have a strong evidence https://web.archive.org/web/20190723132715/http://www.textexcavation.com/documents/zaratacituschrestianos.pdf which shows the tacitus’ oldest copy was modified to change “Chrestianos” (i.e. "Chrestians" - the followers of Chrestus) to Christianos" (i.e. "Christians" – the followers of Christ). Generally, it was modified or manipulated in 1468 because there was no mention prior to it.
Copy-pasted. Enjoy !

And here is a proof how christian term came into existence-
https://relevantmagazine.com/god/where-christian-name-really-came/
Earlier followers of churches, never be called Christians. It was most often used as "saints", not as Christians.

[Zack Williamson]

@pe7erpark3r said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@Kaneki-kun said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

😂y'all searching for Jesus on the internet 😂🤦🤦🤦. When you can just get on your knees (even if you don't at least believe) and ask Him to show himself to you.

YOU WANNA SEE JESUS CHRIST? Well then PRAY and WAIT ON HIM the truth is in every single humans heart but y'all too deaf to hear it.

For those of you who believe, believing is good but it's not enough, get to seek Him. Get to know Him!! The internet is just a confusion device, Jesus Christ is in everyone's heart knowing constantly for you guys to open the door. Me personally I Know Jesus Christ is real, He brought heaven to man, He is God (I Am) made man, Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. God was with man in the flesh! but man was too filthy to recognize Him, too blind and too Deaf! I know God doesn't exist but He IS . God IS (you need to meditate on the Bible (kjv) to be able to make sense out of this)

Y'all looking for prove of Jesus and God is real? Just search your hearts respectively, not google (lol).

I've been trying to get this point across to Vex too :grin:

You wouldn't be worrying for lack of Jesus found in some registry, if you had direct experiential contact with Him. You can indeed find Him in your heart, and indeed, as not just the kjv points out, but even many philosophers note that God does not exist: the verb existing is only valid for anything other than God. Instead God is.

There is a three year studies on prayers which are enough to show prayers do not work. In a hospital, there were two groups were kept. First who did not pray. Second who prayed. Doctors never prescribe any type of prayer for those patients who suffer from various diseases. Their conclusion was prayer makes people thoughts' negative. Prayers make people more anxious and it caused higher rate of postsurgical heart arrhythmias for second group. This experiment was done on total 1800 patients who were going under bypass-surgery.

Last point- proofs and evidences come from two different realms. Burden of proof implies on someone who claims about someone's existence. Here is a whole article for positive, negative claims and burden of proof fallibility.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/burden-of-proof

I gave you one fossil evidence article in this debate. Here is a quote of that article-
I think because of the powerful appeal of a silver bullet, knockdown argument that would destroy Christianity if true. And it’s even better than true from the perspective of a habitual debater; it’s supremely defensible in argument. The two are not always the same.
"The “YOU prove to ME Jesus existed” stance, as with “Atheism is the default” puts the other guy on the defensive and makes him do all the work." When really, “Jesus never existed” is a positive claim, even if it can be phrased as “Show me evidence Jesus existed”. Of course, that evidence does exist. It’s called Christianity.

Ofcourse I sent you wrong article. Sorry. As he says he thinks it is a positive claim. I had another article which I wanted to send you. There was a missing copy-paste of weblinks. Below one was actual weblink-
https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/did-jesus-exist/

I don't think you have a proof of his existence. Therefore, there is no reason to debate on this topic anymore.

[pe7erpark3r]

@Original-Satan said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

I agreed to make a new debate, and now you spam this here with a flood of information, I cannot possibly answer, because I do not have the time... You really seem to have a lot of time. I think you could use it in better ways.

If you ever want a real debate you can join in on the other one.

[pe7erpark3r]

@Original-Satan said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

I also think you really missunderstand the idea of a negative claim, as a surefire way to win this debate...

A negative claim requires as wikipedia says "the absence of reliable sources to assert their validity".

Of course this now I will counter with giving evidence to why the sources we have are indeed reliable. Bit by bit we can argue this through, if you want. For I do have the arguments to convince people. I might not be able to convince you, but I don't have to convince my opponent to win a debate :yum:

[pe7erpark3r]

@Original-Satan said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

So to say it clearly again: If you want to debate with me, we can do it slowly, argument by argument, after agreeing on a set of rules.

If you just want to spam a huge load of information as to why you are right... well have fun alone :yum:

[pe7erpark3r]

Ofcourse I sent you wrong article. Sorry. As he says he thinks it is a positive claim. I had another article which I wanted to send you. There was a missing copy-paste of weblinks. Below one was actual weblink-
https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/did-jesus-exist/

I don't think you have a proof of his existence. Therefore, there is no reason to debate on this topic anymore.

You seem to believe everything as long as you find an article that fullfills your criteria for reliable. However that article is simply wrong. Your other article was right.

I hope you do know that many authors of articles are wrong, even the reliable ones? I hope you do know that many scientists and historians are wrong? I hope you do know that believing an article or a scientific paper because it conforms with your opinion cannot be called rational, right?

Applying the "burden of proof" to history just simply does not work. You can only apply the "burden of evidence" to history and then weigh up the propabilities. Thus our new debate positions are actually better.

So to say it clearly, this is my last post in this debate. You do not need to answer what I wrote here. If you want to debate, come to the new one, and we'll look at all the arguments I just touched.

If you do not want to debate but instead be right, then do not debate and most importantly do not learn from those who are of other oppinion than you, no matter how rational their reasons :grin:.

[GhősT RiDeR]

@Vex-Man Julian as Emperor rejected the newly dominant religion of Christianity and fiercely sought to discredit and to reverse its influence. He wrote and/or commissioned an entire treatise rather savagely disparaging Christianity and its founder Jesus, with intent to discredit the religion, using the extant historic record from the first century to his time.
But in doing so he never disputed Jesus’ historical existence and even somewhat separately offered to prove it.

[Zack Williamson]

@GhősT-RiDeR

@GhősT-RiDeR said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@Vex-Man Julian as Emperor rejected the newly dominant religion of Christianity and fiercely sought to discredit and to reverse its influence. He wrote and/or commissioned an entire treatise rather savagely disparaging Christianity and its founder Jesus, with intent to discredit the religion, using the extant historic record from the first century to his time.

Julian II was born on 330 AD and Mr. Jesus supposedly died on 30-34 AD. I take 34 AD for you. 330-34 = 296 years. He was certainly not an eye-witness of Jesus because he was born after 296 years of jesus' alleged death. Second, he did just collect Christian belief system, heresy from 2nd century and repeated in his writings. Third, some of his writings have been already lost while some are not. Fourth, there were 30 contemporary roman and jew writers who did not give a damn about jesus. Their books were even more popular than the Bible. Fifth, none of the independent writer, theologian or king recorded earthly jesus' history in 1st century. How can you say he collected their writings from 1st century ? Could you name one of them ?

But in doing so he never disputed Jesus’ historical existence and even somewhat separately offered to prove it.

Appeal to authority- person 'A' does not believe in 'X' religion. 'Y' is the founder of 'X'. Person 'A' thinks Y historically existed, even tho he is a non-believer of 'X' religion.

[Zhyper777]

@Vex-Man The historical evidence for Jesus of Nazareth is both long-established and widespread. Within a few decades of his supposed lifetime, he is mentioned by Jewish and Roman historians, as well as by dozens of Christian writings. Compare that with, for example, King Arthur, who supposedly lived around AD500. The major historical source for events of that time does not even mention Arthur, and he is first referred to 300 or 400 years after he is supposed to have lived. The evidence for Jesus is not limited to later folklore, as are accounts of Arthur.

What do Christian writings tell us?
The value of this evidence is that it is both early and detailed. The first Christian writings to talk about Jesus are the epistles of St Paul, and scholars agree that the earliest of these letters were written within 25 years of Jesus’s death at the very latest, while the detailed biographical accounts of Jesus in the New Testament gospels date from around 40 years after he died. These all appeared within the lifetimes of numerous eyewitnesses, and provide descriptions that comport with the culture and geography of first-century Palestine. It is also difficult to imagine why Christian writers would invent such a thoroughly Jewish saviour figure in a time and place – under the aegis of the Roman empire – where there was strong suspicion of Judaism.

What did non-Christian authors say about Jesus?
As far as we know, the first author outside the church to mention Jesus is the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, who wrote a history of Judaism around AD93. He has two references to Jesus. One of these is controversial because it is thought to be corrupted by Christian scribes (probably turning Josephus’s negative account into a more positive one), but the other is not suspicious – a reference to James, the brother of “Jesus, the so-called Christ”.

About 20 years after Josephus we have the Roman politicians Pliny and Tacitus, who held some of the highest offices of state at the beginning of the second century AD. From Tacitus we learn that Jesus was executed while Pontius Pilate was the Roman prefect in charge of Judaea (AD26-36) and Tiberius was emperor (AD14-37) – reports that fit with the timeframe of the gospels. Pliny contributes the information that, where he was governor in northern Turkey, Christians worshipped Christ as a god. Neither of them liked Christians – Pliny writes of their “pig-headed obstinacy” and Tacitus calls their religion a destructive superstition.

Did ancient writers discuss the existence of Jesus?
Strikingly, there was never any debate in the ancient world about whether Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure. In the earliest literature of the Jewish Rabbis, Jesus was denounced as the illegitimate child of Mary and a sorcerer. Among pagans, the satirist Lucian and philosopher Celsus dismissed Jesus as a scoundrel, but we know of no one in the ancient world who questioned whether Jesus lived.

How controversial is the existence of Jesus now?
In a recent book, the French philosopher Michel Onfray talks of Jesus as a mere hypothesis, his existence as an idea rather than as a historical figure. About 10 years ago, The Jesus Project was set up in the US; one of its main questions for discussion was that of whether or not Jesus existed. Some authors have even argued that Jesus of Nazareth was doubly non-existent, contending that both Jesus and Nazareth are Christian inventions. It is worth noting, though, that the two mainstream historians who have written most against these hypersceptical arguments are atheists: Maurice Casey (formerly of Nottingham University) and Bart Ehrman (University of North Carolina). They have issued stinging criticisms of the “Jesus-myth” approach, branding it pseudo-scholarship. Nevertheless, a recent survey discovered that 40% of adults in England did not believe that Jesus was a real historical figure.

[Zack Williamson]

@Zhyper777 @Zhyper777 said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@Vex-Man The historical evidence for Jesus of Nazareth is both long-established and widespread. Within a few decades of his supposed lifetime, he is mentioned by Jewish and Roman historians, as well as by dozens of Christian writings. Compare that with, for example, King Arthur, who supposedly lived around AD500. The major historical source for events of that time does not even mention Arthur, and he is first referred to 300 or 400 years after he is supposed to have lived. The evidence for Jesus is not limited to later folklore, as are accounts of Arthur.

Your analogy is bit absurd here. King Arthur was not a historical figure. He is declared a fictional character by all the historians. In contrast to Arthur, the most (not all) historians concur Jesus was a historical person. We do have a fossil evidence of Julius Caesar but we do not have any fossil evidence of Jesus. Eh ? As far as I know "historical consensus" word does not exist but "scientific consensus" does. I chose my thesis "Jesus was a fictional character" and went against the majority of historics. But majority can be wrong and minority can be true. Our history is full of those examples and even our democracy where "the guy chosen by majority" is often corrupt and biased. I would add 2 more points here- 1. Arthur was not a contemporary man of jesus. However, moses certainly was. And the first follower of moses came out after exactly 20 years of jesus' death. Luddite movement was started after 18 years of Ludd's alledged death, yet ned ludd is a fictional character.
Therefore you have just done composition fallacy.

What do Christian writings tell us?

Christian writings are not independent at all.

The value of this evidence is that it is both early and detailed. The first Christian writings to talk about Jesus are the epistles of St Paul, and scholars agree that the earliest of these letters were written

Paul did not write about Jesus’ life and teachings in the epistles. Peter, Paul and other epistle writers did not write Jesus’ bio-geographical details and the time of his existence. They do not even mention Bethlehem, Nazareth, Galilee, Calvary or Golgotha or any other pilgrim or any other holy site, his miracles, his moral teachings, his virgin birth, his disciples, his empty tomb. Btw Paul himself never met with an earthly Jesus and he knew Jesus thru scriptures and revelations.
2 Corinthians 11:5 and 12:11 – Paul asserts he is not inferior to the super-apostles
Gal 2:11- He apparently opposed peter
Gal 2:6- he stated no one (including apostles in Jerusalem) added anything into his message. This gave a chance to skeptics to say peter and James never met with Jesus. Paul himself accepted that his revelations did not come from an earthly man but from a saviour.
Paul in Galatians 1:11,12 — “I want you to know, brothers, that the gospel I preached is not something that man made up. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.

within 25 years of Jesus’s death at the very latest,

True

while the detailed biographical accounts of Jesus in the New Testament gospels date from around 40 years after he died.

There was no such word like gospel till 140CE. Papias was the first guy who mentioned the word Gospel. Yet he referred to Mark and Matthew only. All four gospels were not mentioned before 180 CE. That means there is no evidence out of the bible for term gospel before 140 CE.

These all appeared within the lifetimes of numerous eyewitnesses, and provide descriptions that comport with the culture and geography of first-century Palestine.

Mark was an earliest gospel, his author was not local to Palestine because he had lack of knowledge of Palestine's social situations and geography. Luke copied error of mark in Luke 8 but Matthew changed the men’s number and location in Matthew 8.

It is also difficult to imagine why Christian writers would invent such a thoroughly Jewish saviour figure in a time and place – under the aegis of the Roman empire – where there was strong suspicion of Judaism.

Because Pilate was a cruel king and he became like a tire to fix air like Jesus. All four gospels contradict one-another numerous times. Either it is birth of Jesus or the death of him, all 4 gospels try to rule out one-another. i.e. Matthew 2:1 states Jesus was born before 4BCE but Luke 2:1-4 states he was born after 6BCE. Matthew, Mark and John did not know about the census. A preposition must be true if it does not contradict itself. Therefore you cannot even decide when he was born or resurrected. Mark says Jesus died on the 9th hour on the afternoon of Passover, the 15th of Nisan by the Jewish calendar. But John says he didn't even die on that day. John tells us (three times) that Jesus is tried and executed the day before, on the Preparation Day for the Passover, the 14th of Nisan (19:14, 31, 42). To make matters still worse, all four Gospels insist this happened on a Friday. But was it Friday the 14th or Friday the 15th?

What did non-Christian authors say about Jesus?
As far as we know, the first author outside the church to mention Jesus is the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, who wrote a history of Judaism around AD93. He has two references to Jesus. One of these is controversial because it is thought to be corrupted by Christian scribes (probably turning Josephus’s negative account into a more positive one), but the other is not suspicious – a reference to James, the brother of “Jesus, the so-called Christ”.

First, Josephus was not even born when jesus existed. Josephus was born on 37 but Jesus died on 34. He was not an eye-witness.
Second, the term ‘who was called Christ’ was a forgery too. This term was awful and was inserted by a transcriber. There was a christian (Eusebius) who tried to prove his existence and it was interpolated by him in 325CE. This text is completely out of the context and it interrupts the story line. The next passage begins from “About the same time also another sad calamity put the Jews into disorder.” it was explicitly referred to prev paragraph when Pilate did a massacre of mob of Jews in Jerusalem. The style of these texts was not same but different from other writings. P.s. Josephus did write minor-minor people extensively but he did not write about Jesus extensively. I made a proof aka logical conclusion on that-
P1- Josephus wrote extensively about minor-minor people
P2- He did not write extensively about Jesus
C- Jesus was not even a minor guy.
PPS - Mr. Vossius who had found original manuscripts of Josephus, has said there was no such word like "Jesus" in it.

Neither Acts nor James the just did mention an event like this passage did.

In the last of this passage, jesus was referred to
the son of damneus and he was decorated as a high priest by Ariappa.

Jews were so angry (due to stoning of James) that they requested Ariappa to fire Ananus. Since christians were supposed to be a sect of Jews, why would they get angry over Christians ?

About 20 years after Josephus we have the Roman politicians Pliny and Tacitus, who held some of the highest offices of state at the beginning of the second century AD. From Tacitus we learn that Jesus was executed while Pontius Pilate was the Roman prefect in charge of Judaea (AD26-36) and Tiberius was emperor (AD14-37) – reports that fit with the timeframe of the gospels. Pliny contributes the information that, where he was governor in northern Turkey, Christians worshipped Christ as a god. Neither of them liked Christians – Pliny writes of their “pig-headed obstinacy” and Tacitus calls their religion a destructive superstition.

1. Tacitus woo was not born when Jesus died.
2. Tacitus wrote ‘christos’ were executed by the pilate. He could have written Jesus but not his religious title ‘Christos’. The second point you could note is, the reference of Tacitus’ was never mentioned by Origen, Eusebius, Tertullian in 3rd century. Tertullian was the one who quoted Tacitus’ great deal. I have a strong evidence https://web.archive.org/web/20190723132715/http://www.textexcavation.com/documents/zaratacituschrestianos.pdf which shows the Tacitus’ oldest copy was modified to change “Chrestianos” (i.e. "Chrestians" - the followers of Chrestus) to Christianos" (i.e. "Christians" – the followers of Christ). Generally, it was modified or manipulated in 1468 because there was no mention prior to it.

How controversial is the existence of Jesus now?
In a recent book, the French philosopher Michel Onfray talks of Jesus as a mere hypothesis, his existence as an idea rather than as a historical figure. About 10 years ago, The Jesus Project was set up in the US; one of its main questions for discussion was that of whether or not Jesus existed. Some authors have even argued that Jesus of Nazareth was doubly non-existent, contending that both Jesus and Nazareth are Christian inventions. It is worth noting, though, that the two mainstream historians who have written most against these hypersceptical arguments are atheists: Maurice Casey (formerly of Nottingham University) and Bart Ehrman (University of North Carolina). They have issued stinging criticisms of the “Jesus-myth” approach, branding it pseudo-scholarship.

Well, there are many skeptics (not only Michel Onfray) who had published their books to argue Jesus’ non-existence. Bart is a scholar of new-testament but he lost the debate against a mythicist (should I write down his name ?). Bart is a former christian and now he is an agnostic atheist. I do not know about Casey.

Nevertheless, a recent survey discovered that 40% of adults in England did not believe that Jesus was a real historical figure.

True

Man, you have copy-pasted an aticle- https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/14/what-is-the-historical-evidence-that-jesus-christ-lived-and-died 😂. I was thinking first why you were asking questions to yourself first and then answering them yourself too.

Did ancient writers discuss the existence of Jesus?
Strikingly, there was never any debate in the ancient world about whether Jesus of Nazareth was a historical figure. In the earliest literature of the Jewish Rabbis, Jesus was denounced as the illegitimate child of Mary and a sorcerer. Among pagans, the satirist Lucian and philosopher Celsus dismissed Jesus as a scoundrel, but we know of no one in the ancient world who questioned whether Jesus lived.

Argument from silence is a nice trick for defence 😉.

You dont know one important point here- Christianity was a jewish sect before 395 AD. Many roman and jew writers wrote a lot about jesus' non-existence. All of those books were burnt in 3rd-4th by Christians because they gained a lot of political power at that movement.

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@pe7erpark3r @pe7erpark3r said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@Original-Satan said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

I agreed to make a new debate,

First, I will never change my position. Second, yes I said you to make new debate. You made a new topic and now whole TWS has seen that new topic. It was a nice lesson for you. Next time you will think twice before misinterpreting your opponent’s position with your strawman argument- It is insane to say people historically did not exist with absolute certainty.

Now you have only two options-

1. If you want a debate without misinterpreting your opponent's thesis, you may debate here.
2. If you want a debate with interpreting/misinterpreting your opponent's position, you can debate there (on new thread) with your churches' priests, bishops, popes. It sounds like they love to interpret/misinterpret everything.

and now you spam this here with a flood of information,

Third, the meaning of spam is unwanted email, usually advertisements. I have not put a single advertisement in any post. Well, here is a dictionary for you. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/spam

I cannot possibly answer, because I do not have the time...

If you did not have time, you should not start a debate with using someone else username in a topic.

You really seem to have a lot of time. I think you could use it in better ways.

Nice ad-hominem argument for your defense.

If you ever want a real debate you can join in on the other one.

This is the last debate between you and me on any topic/thesis . I will not join any new debate.

@pe7erpark3r said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@Original-Satan said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

I also think you really missunderstand the idea of a negative claim, as a surefire way to win this debate...

Misunderstand*

A negative claim requires as wikipedia says "the absence of reliable sources to assert their validity".

That is your faith says, not Wikipedia does. Here is a screenshot for defining a negative claim -
. Negative claims are statements that assert the non-existence or exclusion of something. My thesis is all about non-existence of a person.

Of course this now I will counter with giving evidence to why the sources we have are indeed reliable. Bit by bit we can argue this through, if you want.

You can argue with me here any time, if you want.

For I do have the arguments to convince people.

So I do.

I might not be able to convince you, but I don't have to convince my opponent to win a debate :yum:

True, you will convince the public with your fallacious arguments. I laud it.

@pe7erpark3r said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@Original-Satan said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

So to say it clearly again: If you want to debate with me, we can do it slowly, argument by argument, after agreeing on a set of rules.

If you just want to spam a huge load of information as to why you are right...

Again, spam is an advertisement or an unwanted email. You annoy people in PMS, even though they do not want to discuss anything in their PMS. So yeah, you are a spammer.

P.S. you can read TWS community rules for knowing what a spam is.
PPS. When I went offline for two days, I had to refute more than 7-8 arguments. First people do debate with me, then you argue with their own arguments. They too argue with their next arguments. I did not say that I did not have time. I had to refute all of them. This rule certainly attributes to you first.

well have fun alone :yum:

You can rejoin or leave, I do not care.

@pe7erpark3r said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

Ofcourse I sent you wrong article. Sorry. As he says he thinks it is a positive claim. I had another article which I wanted to send you. There was a missing copy-paste of weblinks. Below one was actual weblink-
https://www.atheists.org/activism/resources/did-jesus-exist/

I don't think you have a proof of his existence. Therefore, there is no reason to debate on this topic anymore.

You seem to believe everything as long as you find an article that fullfills your criteria for reliable. However that article is simply wrong. Your other article was right.

Fulfills*

Ditto rule goes for you. You believed on an article which is well written by a christian. You misquoted Wikipedia for describing a negative claim XD. When you shift the burden on someone whose thesis holds for ‘Non-existence of a person’, we call it “argument from ignorance”.

Friendly reminder- Even thou you may present eye-witnesses in upcoming arguments, they are often considered as bad evidences.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/uncategorized/myth-eyewitness-testimony-is-the-best-kind-of-evidence.html

I hope you do know that many authors of articles are wrong, even the reliable ones? I hope you do know that many scientists and historians are wrong? I hope you do know that believing an article or a scientific paper because it conforms with your opinion cannot be called rational, right?

Why don’t you check Wikipedia though ? Why don’t you check other websites ?
http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/phil_of_religion_text/CHAPTER_5_ARGUMENTS_EXPERIENCE/Burden-of-Proof.htm

http://www.patenttrademarkblog.com/negative-claim-limitations/
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=c25ad9cc-509b-40db-851c-b444abc2ce79

Applying the "burden of proof" to history just simply does not work. You can only apply the "burden of evidence" to history and then weigh up the propabilities.

Probabilities*
Here you go again. Proof can be made thru science, photography, mathematics or logic. I wrote 2 logical proofs for you.

Premise 1- Josephus wrote extensive things about minor-minor people.
Premise 2- Jesus was a minor people (your premise with -nor consider him to be of great importance.)
Conclusion- Josephus wrote extensive things about Jesus.
Conclusion is not true. He did not write about him extensively.

Premise no.1- Whatever the Bible says, is true
Premise no. 2- The Bible says pigs fly
Conclusion- Pigs fly, is true

Refute them if you can otherwise I will declare my win here ;) . Convince to the public how pigs do fly. Give a demonstration of your Biblical truth.

Thus our new debate positions are actually better.

I wont change my position. I have my confidence+reason, you have your faith.

So to say it clearly, this is my last post in this debate. You do not need to answer what I wrote here. If you want to debate, come to the new one, and we'll look at all the arguments I just touched.

I wouldn't come there. If you want a debate with me, you may carry on this topic. I have decided to not debate with you on any other topic or any other thesis.

If you do not want to debate but instead be right,

Says the one who loves to call people “insane” for no reason at all.

then do not debate and most importantly do not learn from those who are of other oppinion than you, no matter how rational their reasons :grin:.

Opinions*
There are many misspelled words. Am I here for correcting your terms or for a debate ? OwO your fallacious arguments are wholly absurd and are not reasonable.

P.S. I did not know people do debate in PMS too. I do not give permission to anyone to disclose personal conversations in the public. You can come up with your starting arguments anyways.

[pe7erpark3r]

@Vex-Man I too have my confidence + reason, and @Zhyper777 has – despite not giving his source – pasted a good article about why most educated people (christian/atheist/other religion) think that Jesus was historical...

Those are really good arguments and thus I declare that @Zhyper777 has won this debate :yum:

And no thank you, really. I do not find a discussion meaningful that does not go through its arguments one by one.

Sorry about posting those 6 words from the PMs...

You know, I've said before, that faith is something very different from thinking that God is... God is infinite mercy. When you sin against him, and you repent and ask forgiveness, he will never mention it again, except sometimes to remind you to stay humble. God Himself is meek and humble, which is why he always speaks so gently, and asks you to open the door of your heart. This is why He does not force you to believe by allowing anybody to proof His existence to you. However his Voice resonates clearly within your soul, when you only so much as utter a word of repentence, of leaving your evil and irrational ways. He will not force you to believe. But He will come by Fire, a purifying Fire of the Holy Spirit raining down on humanity to teach them the meaning of Peace and Reconciliation. You will see your Saviour face to face, the Holy of Holies, who invites mere children into His kingdom, because they have no malice, no evil in them. And they are ready to forgive, because they themselves have been forgiven.

[Zack Williamson]

@pe7erpark3r

@pe7erpark3r said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@Vex-Man I too have my confidence + reason,

Abusive confidence+Faithful reason*
Lets check how much reason you really have. I will bring all fallacious arguments since the starting of this debate-

1. 
   Ad-hominem argument+ strawman argument
2. 
   Straw-man argument
3. 
   Strawman argument regarding to tacitus
4. 
   Argument from ignorance for shifting the burden
5. 
   Argument from popularity
   First post and 5 faithful falllacious arguments!

and @Zhyper777 has – despite not giving his source

You accept "absence of evidence", yet you argue he is the winner- argument from ignorance

– pasted a good article about why most educated people (christian/atheist/other religion) think that Jesus was historical...

Most educated people think Aliens really exist.. But they have no proof of aliens' existence.
Most educated people do think vs most educated prove- 2 different statements.
Education is different from knowledge. Knowledge does not come from education. Plus he has just repeated old arguments of the debate and nothing else. Forget about the winner, he is not even a debater because a debater does not give a speech he argues and counter-argues. Your guy did not counter-argue with me. He has no proof anyways.

Those are really good arguments

If argument from silence, argument from ignorance and argument from repetition were good arguments, the logic could become a religion itself. A true debater is the one who makes new argument, who scrolls up old argument and their replies. Thus I say the best argument was posted by someone else.

and thus I declare that @Zhyper777 has won this debate :yum:

I do not care what your faith declares. PPS. He could not even touch my logical proof.
Here was the logical proof- .
Here I declare I am the winner. Do whatever you can do.

And no thank you, really. I do not find a discussion meaningful that does not go through its arguments one by one.

True but you are talking about yourself. Scroll up and say how many arguments you collectively posted otherwise I'll post their screenshots on here.

Sorry about posting those 6 words from the PMs...

You know, I've said before, that faith is something very different from thinking that God is...

I will replace some words for you-
"you know, I've said before, that faith is something very different from thinking what @Zhyper777's arguments are"- this is how you your faith declares
And here I quote some texts which you wrote to me in PMs- think, learn, understand and whoever does not do that he should kill himself. The world will be better without them. No offence! 😂.
Now I say theists like you do not even try to read what their opponent has written. They love to sing their own song. This is why I repeat myself more than once.

1. Thinking what 'A' is- reasoning. You may reach to false or true conclusion. But at least it is so-called reasoning.
2. Not thinking what 'A' is, yet claiming he loves you, he forgives your sins, he sends you into heaven/hell etc.- faith.

God is infinite mercy.

Ad nauseam. Nothing is infinite except of numbers.

When you sin against him, and you repent and ask forgiveness, he will never mention it again, except sometimes to remind you to stay humble.

Christians often think their all sins are forgivable. Do sins as many as you can do. This is why South Africa (a christian country) is the home of many rapes.

God Himself is meek and humble,

A non-existence entity has no emotion.

which is why he always speaks so gently, and asks you to open the door of your heart.

Open your Bible and read Matthew 17:17
Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him here to me.

This is why He does not force you to believe by allowing anybody to proof His existence to you.

If there is a proof, it is rational to believe in him. If there is no proof, it is not rational to believe in him. You can believe in anything, I do not bother with your beliefs.

However his Voice resonates clearly within your soul,

There is no soul. The soul can neither be perceived nor be detected. People who claim to hear his voice have schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, mutiple personality disorder.

when you only so much as utter a word of repentence, of leaving your evil and irrational ways. He will not force you to believe.

If he doesnt force someone to not believing in him, why does he show his terror on non-believers ?
John 3:18- Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son

But He will come by Fire, a purifying Fire of the Holy Spirit raining down on humanity to teach them the meaning of Peace and Reconciliation.

Your statement contradicts the Bible.

Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. (Matthew 10:34)

You will see your Saviour face to face, the Holy of Holies, who invites mere children into His kingdom, because they have no malice, no evil in them. And they are ready to forgive, because they themselves have been forgiven.

I am not taking hallucinations drugs nor do I have brain injuries. I wished that I could save all the children from those religions. A baby is born atheist. All trash is inserted into his brain by his family.

[Zack Williamson]

@AllAboutGay @AllAboutGay said in Vex Debate: was Jesus historical?:

@pe7erpark3r Although i am a believer of LGBT, i have some gay opinions about other religions as well
<3

I just came here to say here that Muslims are technically Christians.

You are definitely incorrect. Christians are considered as disbelievers in the Koran so neither is continuity of each-other-

They have certainly disbelieved who say that Allah is Christ, the son of Mary. Say, "Then who could prevent Allah at all if He had intended to destroy Christ, the son of Mary, or his mother or everyone on the earth?" And to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them. He creates what He wills, and Allah is over all things competent. (Surah- An-Nisa 5:17)

According to the bible, whoever will admit that Jesus is from god will not perish.

John 3:16 speaks about your verse so you are correct- or God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life

Islam agrees that Jesus is from god though it rejects the idea that the one and only god has any offspring. Islam gives high importance to Jesus.

Surah 5 verse no 72 states that whoever associates allah with Jesus will be burnt in fire. As you associate Allah with other Gods, you will be hunted by the Allah.

They have certainly disbelieved who say, "Allah is the Messiah, the son of Mary" while the Messiah has said, "O Children of Israel, worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord." Indeed, he who associates others with Allah - Allah has forbidden him Paradise, and his refuge is the Fire. And there are not for the wrongdoers any helpers.

Surah 5 verse no 73 apparently states Christians alike other disbelievers will be punished. The Koran does not only reject the Biblical God but also rejects Christianity's trinity concept (God, holy spirit, son)-

They have certainly disbelieved who say, " Allah is the third of three." And there is no god except one God. And if they do not desist from what they are saying, there will surely afflict the disbelievers among them a painful punishment.

Surah 4 verse 47 states followers of religions other than Islam, will be disfigured-
O you who were given the Scripture, believe in what We have sent down [to Muhammad], confirming that which is with you, before We obliterate faces and turn them toward their backs or curse them as We cursed the sabbath-breakers. And ever is the decree of Allah accomplished.

According to a letter by prophet Muhammad (recorded in hadith books like Sahih Bukhari), islam is just a continuation and fulfilment of Christianity and not an entirely new religion.

Fulfillment*
You have distorted the real letter. I can quote the letter from Wikipedia-
Narrated 'Aisha and 'Abdullah bin 'Abbas: When the last moment of the life of Allah's Apostle came he started putting his 'Khamisa' on his face and when he felt hot and short of breath he took it off his face and said, "May Allah curse the Jews and Christians for they built the places of worship at the graves of their Prophets." The Prophet was warning (Muslims) of what those had done.
Where does he say islam is not a new religion but continiuty of christianity ? Source- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad's_views_on_Christians

Also, many gay things done in the name of Islam or Christianity are not actually parts of Islam or Christianity but the results of misconceptions :yum:

I disagree with you. There is no misconception dude. The Islam and the Christianity are two biggest threats to humanity. Although I am not an anti-theist but everyone should know the truth. So first I will grab the Koran and will initialize to read verses-

Surah 4 verse no. 89 orders Muslims to kill disbelievers who try to change their views-

They wish you would disbelieve as they disbelieved so you would be alike. So do not take from among them allies until they emigrate for the cause of Allah . But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them and take not from among them any ally or helper.

Surah 7 verse no 4 describes how many cities of disbelievers are destroyed by Muhammad-

And how many cities have We destroyed, and Our punishment came to them at night or while they were sleeping at noon.

Surah no 8 verses numbers 15 and 16 recommend Muslims to fight with disbelievers and whoever comes back from fight, will be tortured by the Allah-

O you who have believed, when you meet those who disbelieve advancing [for battle], do not turn to them your backs [in flight]. And whoever turns his back to them on such a day, unless swerving [as a strategy] for war or joining [another] company, has certainly returned with anger [upon him] from Allah, and his refuge is Hell - and wretched is the destination.

Surah 8 verse 39 recommends Muslims to persecute every religion except of Islam-
And fight them until there is no fitnah and [until] the religion, all of it, is for Allah . And if they cease - then indeed, Allah is Seeing of what they do.

Surrah no 8 verses no 59 and 60 instruct Muslims to let not escaping the disbelievers even after a peaceful treaty with them-

And let not those who disbelieve think they will escape. Indeed, they will not cause failure [to Allah ]. And prepare against them whatever you are able of power and of steeds of war by which you may terrify the enemy of Allah and your enemy and others besides them whom you do not know [but] whom Allah knows. And whatever you spend in the cause of Allah will be fully repaid to you, and you will not be wronged.

Surah 8 verse no 65 instructs Muslims to provoke disbelievers because Allah has hope that Muslims will win over disbelievers-
O Prophet, urge the believers to battle. If there are among you twenty [who are] steadfast, they will overcome two hundred. And if there are among you one hundred [who are] steadfast, they will overcome a thousand of those who have disbelieved because they are a people who do not understand.

Surah 22 verse 15 suggests those people to suicide who think Allah won’t support Muhammad -

Whoever should think that Allah will not support [Prophet Muhammad] in this world and the Hereafter - let him extend a rope to the ceiling, then cut off [his breath], and let him see: will his effort remove that which enrages [him]?
Whole chapter 22 depicts Allah as a terrorist. It sounds like he is an al-qaedian terrorist- 22:1, 22:2, 22:3, 22:8, 22:9, 22:15, 22;18, 22:19-22, 22:25, 22:45, 22:47, 22:51, 22:55, 22:57, 22:72. This chapter is addressed to Jews, Christians and sabians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Hajj

Surah 28 verses 62-64 state the Allah will taunt Christians on the day of their doom and every Muslim will see how Christians are punished-
And [warn of] the Day He will call them and say, "Where are My 'partners' which you used to claim? Those upon whom the word will have come into effect will say, "Our Lord, these are the ones we led to error. We led them to error just as we were in error. We declare our disassociation [from them] to You. They did not used to worship us. And it will be said, "Invoke your 'partners' " and they will invoke them; but they will not respond to them, and they will see the punishment. If only they had followed guidance!

Surah 61 verse 4 recommends Muslims to fight for the name of Allah-
Indeed, Allah loves those who fight in His cause in a row as though they are a [single] structure joined firmly.

Surah 25 verse 52 orders Muslims to fight against disbelievers-

So, (O Prophet), do not follow the unbelievers but engage in a mighty striving against them with this Qur'an.

Surah 48 verse 29 describes the people with Muhammad are forceful against disbelievers-
Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah ; and those with him are forceful against the disbelievers, merciful among themselves.

The Allah orders the Muhammad to be enough harsh with disbelievers (Surah 66 verse 9)
O Prophet, strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites and be harsh upon them. And their refuge is Hell, and wretched is the destination.

Surah 60 verse 1 guides Muslims to fight against disbelievers and the disbelievers should not be supposed as friends in this Jihad-

O you who have believed, do not take My enemies and your enemies as allies, extending to them affection while they have disbelieved in what came to you of the truth, having driven out the Prophet and yourselves [only] because you believe in Allah, your Lord. If you have come out for jihad in My cause and seeking means to My approval, [take them not as friends]. You confide to them affection, but I am most knowing of what you have concealed and what you have declared. And whoever does it among you has certainly strayed from the soundness of the way.

There are total 532 (8.5 percent of the Koran) verses in the Koran reflecting the disdain for non-violence and cruelty, yet people think these all verses are misconceptions. However, this 8.5 percent verses do not include adultery, child abuse, homophobia, slavery, misogynistic, polygamy etc. You can check the authenticity of my verses from Quran.com.

Now I will grab the Bible. I will use English Standard Version or New International Version most of the times.

1. The God commands for every Canaanite's ethnic cleansing. The Canaanites were the people who lived in Israel, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan-
   and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy (Deuteronomy 7:2 NIV) This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I witnessed what the Amalekites did to the Israelites when they hindered them on their way up from Egypt. Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’

However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. (Deu 20:16)

2. The Biblical God orders Christians not to do a treaty with other theists but when the opportunity comes for eating their sacrifice, Christians are allowed to eat them-

Be careful not to make a treaty with those who live in the land; for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to them, they will invite you and you will eat their sacrifices. (Exodus 34:15 NIV).
The Biblical God himself wrote this verse of second commandment-
The Lord said to Moses, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones, and I will write on them the words that were on the first tablets, which you broke. (Exodus 34:1)

3. The Christians were instructed to kill disbelievers when someone else says them, he is going to worship other Gods-

If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. (Deu 13:6-10)

The Bible has total 1321 (4.25% of the total) verses for belligerence and many of them are addressed to disbelievers and nonbelievers. You can check all Biblical verse from https://www.biblegateway.com.

P.S. This was an off-topic discussion because the users had to argue about Jesus’ existence and non-existence. None of them is arguing with me so I decided to reply to an off-topic discussion. Otherwise I could love to reply you very early.

PPS. I do not care about the downvotes on this post. Many Christians and Muslims may frown upon it. I debate and write for the truth, not for the upvotes/downvotes.

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