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They were not contemporary accounts written at the time.

McReal made a good point too. It was a bit rich to suggest that he read more widely when you yourself clearly need to. Like I said before, the arguments you’re using are well known, and have been discredited many times.

I’ve been through this several times before on OLO myself... http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10176#165314, http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?article=10496#179068

<<You may as well set out to disprove that Alexander the Great, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates and Julius Caesar did not exist if you are going to argue against the figure of Jesus Christ.>>

Firstly, I’m not out to disprove the existence of Jesus. I’m simply pointing out that there is no credible reason to believe he existed as claimed; secondly, then evidence we have for the others is more plentiful and reliable, and thirdly, I can’t know for sure that that any of the others existed, but there are no extraordinary claims about their lives, so I’m willing to take it at face-value that they did.

If you want to tell me that a progressive rabble-rouser named Jesus developed a bit of a following while getting up the noses of authorities then sure, I’ll take your word for it. But if you’re going to claim that he performed miracles and rose from the dead, then that’s going to take a heck of a lot more evidence than some ancient scribblings from primitive people, I’m afraid.

But ALL this aside, nothing Jesus did was even godlike.

He could have provided us with vital medical information - rather than hindering our progress by perpetuating myths about demon possession - or even just some basic hygiene tips. There’s a lot of helpful information he could have provided us with.

Instead, he confined himself to one small part of the word and wasted valuable time preying to himself and performing petty miracles to relatively small amounts of people.

Anyway, how do you know that the other saviours, from whom the story of Jesus was derived, weren’t actually the son of god? After all, they were around long before him.