The Gospels: Are They Historical?

“Never let a Christian get away with saying we have better sources for Jesus than Julius Caesar without pointing out we have two books BY Julius Caesar, in his original language.”

“I’d be interested in hearing more about the methods for dating the gospels. Did they just use carbon dating on found manuscripts or is it literary elements from them that show that mark was written right after the temple destruction? As a C…”

“As someone who has never been religious, it doesn't make sense to me that who the christians claim is god/son of god/prophet of god/adopted of god doesn't have any contemporary evidence of his existence.. neither textual or archeological...…”

“I always find religious exceptionalism really interesting. taking the texts as pure literary works and theres pretty much no difference between them and something like The Odyssey. One is a collection of stories, from an unnamed author/auth…”