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From: orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER)
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Subject: Re: Re: Evidence for Christianity
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Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 13:45:22 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 11 13:45:22 1984
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> Do I need to show the textual
> reliability of relevant documents (including, but not limited to,
> the gospels)?  (Strange that other documents don't appear to be
> subjected to the same scrutiny that the Bible is (e.g., I have
> never heard it disputed that Julius Caesar wrote the works about
> Gaul attributed to him, which is not to say it hasn't been disputed,
> only that I haven't heard it), but that is another topic).
 
actually as I remember my history, there is wide speculation that
Julius Caesar did not write all the accounts from Gaul attributed to
him.  It was one of the first cases of a ghost writer.
Also, nobody ever claimed that Caesar's reports from Gaul represented
divine truth--and their historical accuracy has been questioned about
certain details.
> 
> Now, if the disciples couldn't get the body, and their enemies
> couldn't produce it, and it couldn't walk away on its own accord,
> what happened to it?
 
read "Another Roadside Attraction" by Tom Robbins and find out!!
> 
> Gary Samuelson		"When the impossible has been eliminated,
> bunker!garys		whatever remains, however improbable, must be
> 			the truth."   -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Final question: will the same claim made for Mohammed be considered
valid evidence?  Mohammed supposedly ascended into heaven as well.
Tim Sevener whuxl!orb