Reply #13: Last time I checked, this WAS a public discussion forum, not a private chat room.

[rd_kent]

So, now that that is cleared up.

Claim what you want. Your claim has no proof attached to it either, it is simply your assertion. It doesn't make any sense, either, and I thought atheists were thought to be rational.

From the dictionary....

ex⋅ist –verb (used without object)
1. to have actual being; be: The world exists, whether you like it or not.
2. to have life or animation; live.
3. to continue to be or live: Belief in magic still exists.
4. to have being in a specified place or under certain conditions; be found; occur: Hunger exists in many parts of the world.
5. to achieve the basic needs of existence, as food and shelter: He's not living, he's merely existing.


How can any claim of not existing not be accepted if evidence of existing does not exist? By the meaning of the word, something either exists or it does not exist. There is no gray area. Therefore, if something exists, then there is evidence to prove it exists, and if there is no such evidence, RATIONAL thought and logic tells us that it must not exist.

"the historicity of Jesus is accepted by almost all Biblical scholars and classical historians." Biblical scholars? Thats an oxymoron to start with. If you don't see the hypocrisy in that, then we have nothing further to discuss.