->My first dip in this echo...


-> were no other literary, archeological or other evidence to support the
-> cult's legends. Such is the case with Jesus.
->
The legends are to be differentiated from the historicity of Jesus, no?
 
-> > Some attempt to deny the
-> > existence of an historical Jesus, on the grounds that we lack some
-> > piece of evidence.
-> 
-> ANY contemporaneous evidence, actually, outside of the cult literature.
->
Such as the Naj Hammadi discovery?

Jesus existance is argued historically on the same basis
as the historicity of Julius Caesar...

That he was, few really doubt. Who he was, is, of course a different matter
:-)


-> 
-> > > The evidence for a global flood should be there, if it happened, and
it
-> > > just isn't.
-> >
-> > I believe the Grand Canyon is such evidence.
-> 
-> Of a global flood? Come on.
->
Some so argue. Pseudo-science. Arguing over a POEM...zut alors! :-)
 
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