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HeyBub[_3_]

wrote:

Not going to get into a religeous debate here, but the question of
whether Jesus of Nazareth lived some 2000 years ago is not a question
of faith or conjecture. It is a historic documented fact.

Huh? There is no extra-Biblical evidence of Jesus, and the Biblical evidence
itself is suspect. For example, the Gospels are not self identifying, only
attributed by tradition to Matthew, Mark, etc. Most of the New Testament was
written by Paul, but Paul never met Jesus in the flesh. And so on. However,
all that's not dispositive. There IS an unbroken oral tradition as to the
existence of Jesus.

The only question that remains a matter of faith is if he was who he
claimed to be.. In order for him to be the son of God, you must
believe God exists. This is neither provable nor disproveable, so
remains a matter of faith.

When it comes to the old testement, the proof of whether some
character or another actually existed gets a lot more difficult.

Some are historically verifiable. Some are not.

Right. Adam & Eve, for example. I have, however, seen a serpent...