On 25 May 2004 06:44:37 -0700, (Dirk Hartog)
wrote:

(lensman1955) wrote in message . com...
"Robert J. Kolker" wrote in message news:cHspc.53947$536.9227220@attbi_s03...
Rich.Andrews wrote:


That certainly is one viewpoint. There is large amount of evidence that
suggests that JC existed. Of course this could be the subject of a
debate, but it would be rather pointless.

Actually there is very little such historical evidence. Look in two
places. The Christian Gospels and the writing of Josephus which were
probably redacted by Christial partisans. Other than that, nothing.

Isaac Asimov, in Asimov's Guide to the Bible, Vol. II, The New
Testament, actually deals with the idea that Jesus might be a
fictional character. He dismisses the theory based on his study of the
Gospel writings, taking into account contradictions that show up in
Biblical writing that [are] consider totally fictional (Johah and the
"Great Fish" for one) and observes that clear, obvious contradictions
of that nature don't appear in the Gospels. He determines that Jesus
did actually exist, although he maintains that the miracles and
visions are exagerations generated by later followers.

Now if the 'penultimate agnostic' can acknowledge the existence of
Jesus Christ, where's the question?

No question at all -- if your judgment rests on the "scholarship" of
science-fiction writing amateurs.

The man was more scholarly than you apparently know. Dr Asimov
held a PH.D in Chemistry and was a professor at the Boston University
School of Medicine. Of the 466 books the man wrote in his lifetime
more than half were non-fiction. Not as easy to dismiss his
scholarship when you know who he was, is it?








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