Re:A Manual for Creating Atheists: A Critical Review (2014)
by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @10:28AM
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> It is more difficult to verify the claim now, but eyewitness accounts still exist
No, they don't. “Writings which were once widely considered to be eyewitness accounts but are today, even by most Christians, considered to be at best written multiple generations removed from the time at which any eyewitnesses lived and to have evolved from earlier accounts” exist.
> and can be cross-examined
No, neither they eyewitnesses (if any) nor the actual authors of the accounts (who, at least, clearly exist) can be cross-examined.
> Interestingly, there are accounts of Jesus' miracles from non-believers as well
The surviving accounts also aren't even purportedly first hand, a s often are much later writings based on lost originals that also couldn't be first hand accounts, and, yeah, we Christians aren't the only ones in history who have adapted and incorporated someone else’s mythology.
No, they don't. “Writings which were once widely considered to be eyewitness accounts but are today, even by most Christians, considered to be at best written multiple generations removed from the time at which any eyewitnesses lived and to have evolved from earlier accounts” exist.
> and can be cross-examined
No, neither they eyewitnesses (if any) nor the actual authors of the accounts (who, at least, clearly exist) can be cross-examined.
> Interestingly, there are accounts of Jesus' miracles from non-believers as well
The surviving accounts also aren't even purportedly first hand, a s often are much later writings based on lost originals that also couldn't be first hand accounts, and, yeah, we Christians aren't the only ones in history who have adapted and incorporated someone else’s mythology.