re gospel dating so then you require the same amount of evidence to believe that i a own a pair of bluejeans and b have superhuman powers well i could use the argument that some here use about nature and claim that you cannot have superhuman powers because you are a human superhuman powers are beyond what a human has and since you are a human any powers you have are not beyond those of a human hence you cannot have superhuman powers sound good to you anyway to the evidence question it depends on the context in this group since you are posting from a american college site i m willing to take it as given that you have a pair of blue jeans and assuming there is some coherency in your position i will take it as a given that you do not have superhuman powers arguments are evidence in themselves in some respects when you say the existence of sic jesus i assume that you mean just the man without any special powers etc yep many will agree that it is very possible that a man called jesus did in fact live in fact i am willing to agree that there was some man named jesus i have no reason to believe that there wasn t ever a man good however most of the claims are extradinary eg virgin birth virgin in the sense of not having any sexual intercourse resurection son of god etc those claims require extra evidence extra evidence why don t we start with evidence at all i cannot see any evidence for the v b which the cynics in this group would ever accept as for the second it is the foundation of the religion anyone who claims to have seen the risen jesus back in the day period is a believer and therefore is discounted by those in this group since these are all ancients anyway one again to choose to dismiss the whole thing the third is as much a metaphysical relationship as anything else even those who agree to it have argued at length over what it means so again i don t see how evidence is possible i thus interpret the extraordinary claims claim as a statement that the speaker will not accept any evidence on the matter c wingate the peace of god it is no peace but strife closed in the sod mangoe cs umd edu yet brothers pray for but one thing tove mangoe the marv lous peace of god
