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Is this Apologetics? ?
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Pretty good satire of a stupid atheist argument
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It appears to be an April fools joke. Look at the date it was listed 🙂
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How to LACK belief like a boss ?
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“Clearly there are theories, even complex ones, so absurd as to not merit more than an abrupt dismissal.”
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They just applied the same arguments that people make about Jesus not existing to Lincoln. Kind of fun, and interesting.
Isn’t exactly the same, but it is an interesting way to look at the issue.
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Well, having grown up in Springfield, IL, where Lincoln lived (his house is still there as a tourist attraction), practiced law (his office is still there) and where he is buried under a nice monument in his honor (been there many times) I’d say there is ample secondary evidence of his existence. But none of that empirically proves he existed. And, there is no way that I know of to use genetics since we have nothing to compare his corpse to. But, the photographs, dozens of them. I’d say, yeah, he existed. ?
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The life of “Lincoln” was documented by innumerable observers who lived during “Lincoln’s” own lifetime. This was not true with Jesus, no secular writer or historian wrote about him in His lifetime. “Lincoln” himself left us his own writings. Jesus left no writings. But there is a third distinction that, is important: There is no claim that “Lincoln” rose from the dead or walked on water or healed the sick. And there’s no historian during Jesus‘s lifetime that supports this either.
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It is interesting to see atheist arguments removed from their context. Also, very entertaining watch ?
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Now that is out there!
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When Christian writings began to be collected it was noted that Paul was the first to say anything about Christianity.
As the Gospels were being collected there was a couple of things that were noted, some of the Gospels did not have names on them some of them did. There were hundreds of manuscripts collected and no two were alike.
There was the Gospel of Mary, Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Judas, etc.; it was thought that there were about 30 different gospels which only 26 are in existence today.
The Gospels that were eventually accepted in the Canon had no names on them, so the church in the second or third century placed names on them. They called them; Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
But the copy’s of the manuscripts they had, had no names on them.
Keep in mind that of all the Greek manuscripts we do have of the Gospels, no two are alike.
The Oxford Companion to the Bible.
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