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My post about Julius Caesar was in response to another post claiming that there was more evidence for the existence of Jesus than Julius Caesar. The epistles barely mention the Earthly life of Jesus. I think this is very interesting. It seems that almost all biographical information about...

I would think that the son of God would be higher in the pecking order than emperors and politicians. Jesus lived in the Roman Empire, so it would be natural for Roman historians to write about him. Philo Judaeus: A Jewish philosopher who lived from 20 BC-50 AD. He had family in...

Sorry for letting this thread be inactive for so long. I intend to reply to everyone eventually. Physical evidence for the existence of Julius Caesar: The Tusculum Caesar, is a bust of Julius Caesar which may have been made during his lifetime. It is located in Turin, Museum of Antiquities...

How does that support your position?

What about all the people throughout history who never heard about Jesus?

This sounds more like pantheism than Christianity. Are you sure you are a Christian? Didn't Jesus talk to people while he was on Earth?

Do you have any documentation for any of this? The next time you receive a message from God, write it down and document it. The story is about your wife is a self-fulfilling prophecy. I admit I haven't read the study you mentioned, but I think I have heard about it before. It is a flawed...

Here is more of the passage which you quote. Acts 14:16-17 16In past generations he allowed all the nations to follow their own ways; 17yet he has not left himself without a witness in doing good—giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, and filling you with food and your...

That seems a bit unfair.

Perhaps that is the problem. Maybe you were told what this passage meant when you were a child, instead of reading it and coming to your own conclusion. Now you are unable to accept the plain text reading of it.

Good question PinkSpider. I hesitated at first to answer, because I think your questions were more directed at Christians, but since you responded to one of my threads I thought I would return the favor. I was also thinking of starting my own thread on free will at some point. There are two...

You are the one who brought up this whole registration versus census thing. I asked you to explain your argument and you responded by saying that I am trying to distract attention away from the argument. Look at Luke 2:1-2 again In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all...

Actually Gerasa is about 39 miles away from the Sea of Galilee. I found this from "As The Crow Flies" Distance Calculator. I used Dganya Alef, Israel as the location of the Sea of Galilee. Probably the distance would be slightly shorter if I had used another location. More importantly there...

Exodus 15:26 26He said, ‘If you will listen carefully to the voice of the LORD your God, and do what is right in his sight, and give heed to his commandments and keep all his statutes, I will not bring upon you any of the diseases that I brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the LORD who...

Were there no weak people outside of Palestine? Why use fallible men? Complex life took billions of years to arise through physical processes. It is creationist that believe that God simply popped complex life into existence. If God existed it would be trivial for him to create...