Because there is one book that claims Jesus existence. The bible. The same book that claims there are floodgates in the sky, and the world is flat. Not exactly a sterling reputation there for historical accuracy.
That’s not logic.
The Bible claims neither of these things, they are metaphor and poor interpretation on your part. The OT actually claims the world is spherical, asking who it is that holds the circle of the earth!
but their are floodgates in the sky and the world is flat. That is a true appearance of the world. Unless you’ve never stood in a real heavy downpour which is like having someone open flood gates and if you look across your land it sure does look flat with maybe a few hills and even mountains. But you don’t get the sense of a ‘round’ world.
I agree with Blacksword, if you legitemately want to debate this topic, we should start a new thread. That having been said, a few things:
like others have said before me, bible is not one book and there are other sources talking about Jeusus and that people believe in other ancient persons in history but why not Jesus? Like I said do you believe plato or confusious ever existed?
Good point. Speaking of the world as “flat”, especially in ancient times, would be perfectly rational. The Bible isn’t a science book; though there’s no doubt in my mind that it’s entirely infallible. I’ve never been convinced that it teaches a literal “flat earth”.
shaw:shaw:Seems Job had pretty good idea of science.
shaw:This is incorrect. There are many non-Biblical sources that testify to Jesus. In fact the vast majority of modern scholars do not argue that Jesus Christ was a real, historical person.
Several authors of antiquity wrote of Jesus as a person of history. Among them were Tacitus, Josephus, Seutonius, and Pliny the Younger. In addition Sir William Ramsey, an eminent archaeologist, once held that Luke’s writings were not historically sound. His own subsequent investigation of near-eastern archaeology forced him to reverse his position and conclude that “Luke is a historian of the first rank.”
There are 27 books in the new testament written that makes claims on Jesus’s existence.
It actually is inductive inferential logic. There are many more types of logic than standard “term logic” (Aristotleian with syllogisms) or “symbolic logic” (modern college logic, computer programming), which are both primarily deductive. There is inductive logic, the counter of deductive; inferential, or the logical form of “educated guess”, modal logic, fuzzy logic (no yes/no, but many shades of yes and no), and even the explanation of our very own Most Holy Trinity requires an alternative logic, called non-transitive modal logic.