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MineralMan

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4. Not even a baptismal certificate or family bible entry?

Mon Apr 22, 2019, 02:58 PM

Apr 2019

Hmm...

But, maybe you're right. Maybe young Yeshua just wasn't that big a deal around Jerusalem back then. Just another annoying guy in sandals and robes wandering the streets with a small group of hangers-on. I dunno. Maybe his followers, you know, exaggerated a bit in retelling the stories, and someone finally wrote it down, adding their own embellishments. I don't know, and there's no way to reconstruct it now.

Stories grow the more often they are told, if my family's stories are any example. Great feats of derring-do can arise from mundane events in the past.

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Why Are There No Contemporaneous Documents that Mention Jesus? [View all] MineralMan Apr 2019 OP

I can see how one family escaped the record keeping at that time packman Apr 2019 #1

Yeah. You'd think that the drowning of the Egyptian army MineralMan Apr 2019 #2

Embarrassments weren't recorded. Igel Apr 2019 #7

Not only did they leave Egypt without any written record... Major Nikon Apr 2019 #16

An explanation that I have heard is The Genealogist Apr 2019 #37

Same reason there's no contemporaneous accounts of Brian McGillicuddy of Pigsknuckle, Arksansas. Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #3

Not even a baptismal certificate or family bible entry? MineralMan Apr 2019 #4

Annoying is probably the best guess. Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #6

What do you mean? There are several Clash City Rocker Apr 2019 #5

Contemporaneous sources. Act_of_Reparation Apr 2019 #8

It said contemporaneous and your source is not legitimate Bradshaw3 Apr 2019 #9

Not one of those is contemporaneous. MineralMan Apr 2019 #12

Only one of those is considered to be of Voltaire2 Apr 2019 #17

Because the Devil didn't want you to know of his great achievements. 3Hotdogs Apr 2019 #10

You do have to remember that Jerusalem was destroyed exboyfil Apr 2019 #11

Oral tradition is not verifiable. MineralMan Apr 2019 #13

For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again Cartoonist Apr 2019 #14

Not a lot about Herod Antipas. Igel Apr 2019 #15

Not really a convincing scenario, for either MineralMan Apr 2019 #18

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. kwassa Apr 2019 #21

He also said edhopper Apr 2019 #22

Absence of evidence is evidence of nothing. MineralMan Apr 2019 #23

Although abscence of evidence of something where... uriel1972 Apr 2019 #24

Absence of evidence is proof of nothing else. kwassa Apr 2019 #25

Actually absense of evidence can be evidence of absense edhopper Apr 2019 #30

Um Judea was an important trade area... uriel1972 Apr 2019 #39

Perhaps not all cheap coins locally-minted under Roman authority had faces struggle4progress Apr 2019 #40

Pizza! Pizza! Pandoris Apr 2019 #19

It would mean that Cleopatra was Mary. Pandoris Apr 2019 #20

Nothin' from nothin' leaves nothin' JenniferJuniper Apr 2019 #26

Jesus is as real as Mary being a virgin at the time of his birth n/t itsrobert Apr 2019 #27

Also curious lordsummerisle Apr 2019 #28

Herods slaughter of the innocents Buzz cook Apr 2019 #29

Funny how testy some Christians get when this comes up. trotsky Apr 2019 #31

The truth has very sharp teeth and bites HARD. MineralMan Apr 2019 #32

I just find it interesting when you press for facts, you're told that it's only faith that matters. trotsky Apr 2019 #33

Grasping at straws, I think that's called. MineralMan Apr 2019 #34

Even if they find evidence, it usually doesn't prove much. Mariana Apr 2019 #35

But they haven't found any evidence of Jesus, or his Dad, either. MineralMan Apr 2019 #36

When told that... uriel1972 Apr 2019 #38