>ALL CLAIMS OF JESUS DERIVE FROM HEARSAY ACCOUNTS
i tend to agree with you, mike. but haven't you forgotten to address the issue of the shroud of turin?
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>No one has the slightest physical evidence to support
>a historical Jesus; no artifacts, dwelling, works of
>carpentry, or self-written manuscripts. All claims
>about Jesus derive from writings of other people.
>There occurs no contemporary Roman record that shows
>Pontius Pilate executing a man named Jesus.
>Devastating to historians, there occurs not a single
>contemporary writing that mentions Jesus. All
>documents about Jesus got written well after the life
>of the alleged Jesus from either: unknown authors,
>people who had never met an earthly Jesus, or from
>fraudulent, mythical or allegorical writings. Although
>one can argue that many of these writings come from
>fraud or interpolations, I will use the information
>and dates to show that even if these sources did not
>come from interpolations, they could still not serve
>as reliable evidence for a historical Jesus, simply
>because all sources derive from hearsay accounts.
>
>full: http://www.nobeliefs.com/exist.htm