Re: George Washington

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Thu, 12 Jun 1997 08:59:26 -0600

At 03:37 PM 6/11/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Russell Stewart wrote:
>
>> > As I said, there are in
>> > 20th century man's possession, original documentation of
>> > these events. However, history has no documentation of
>> > anyone in the first century denying these events. Yes, they
>> > deny Jesus was the Son of God, but they fail to deny He was
>> > resurrected.
>>
>> And therefore, since we have no record of such denials, we should logically
>> conclude that they never existed?
>
>I think a better question is, In the absence of such historical evidence
>what reason do we have to believe that they did exist? I think I detect
>some inconsistency here. On one hand, Russell, you demand that anyone
>who asserts that something exists, present evidence in support of his
>assertion.

Actually, I'm not claiming that such denials existed. Maybe they didn't.
But that still doesn't prove anything except that people were a lot more
gullible back then.

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