you should read up on the shroud of turin
en.wikipedia.org
What a joke. You may as well tell me the Mother Mary in your piece of toast is a sign from god. LOL.
There is no evidence to support any of the claims made in the Bible concerning the existence of a god. Any ‘evidence’ proposed by theists to support the Bible’s various historical and supernatural claims is non-existent at best,
manufactured at worst.
The Bible is not self-authenticating; it is simply one of many religious texts. Like those other texts, it itself constitutes no evidence for the existence of a god. Its florid prose and fanciful content do not legitimise it nor distinguish it from other
ancient works of literature.
The Bible is
historically inaccurate,
factually incorrect,
inconsistent and
contradictory. It was
artificially constructed by a group of
men in antiquity and is
poorly translated,
heavily altered and
selectively interpreted. Entire sections of the text have been
redacted over time.
There is
no contemporary evidence for Jesus’ existence or the Bible’s account of his life; no artefacts, dwellings, works of carpentry, self-written manuscripts, court records, eyewitness testimony, official diaries, birth records, reflections on his significance or written disputes about his teachings. Nothing survives from the time in which he is said to have lived.
All historical references to Jesus derive from
hearsay accounts written decades or centuries after his supposed death. These historical references generally refer to early Christians rather than a historical Jesus and, in some cases, directly
contradict the Gospels or were deliberately
manufactured.
The Gospels themselves
contradict one-another [
2] on many key events and were constructed by
unknown authors up to a
century after the events they describe are said to have occurred. They are not
eyewitness accounts. The New Testament, as a whole, contains many
internal inconsistencies as a result of its
piecemeal construction and is
factually incorrect on several
historical claims, such as the early existence of Nazareth, the reign of Herod and the Roman census. Like the Old Testament, it too has had entire books and sections
redacted.
The Biblical account of Jesus has striking similarities with other
mythologies and texts and many of his supposed teachings existed
prior to his time. It is likely the character was either partly or entirely
invented [
2] by competing first century messianic cults from an amalgamation of Greco-Roman, Egyptian and Judeo-Apocalyptic myths and prophecies.
Even if Jesus’ existence could be established, this would in no way validate Christian theology or any element of the story portrayed in the Bible, such as the performance of miracles or the resurrection. Simply because it is conceivable a heretical Jewish preacher named
Yeshua lived circa 30 AD, had followers and was executed, does not imply the son of a god walked the Earth at that time.
The motivation for belief in a divine, salvational Jesus breaks down when you
accept evolution:
“Now, if the book of Genesis is an allegory, then sin is an allegory, the Fall is an allegory and the need for a Savior is an allegory – but if we are all descendants of an allegory, where does that leave us? It destroys the foundation of all Christian doctrine—it destroys the foundation of the gospel.” – Ken Ham
See also:
Evidence for Jesus,
Did Jesus Exist? [
2][
3],
Why I am not a Christian (a must read), the
Christological Argument, Hitchens –
Core of the Jesus myth and
Christianity is Immoral (both must watch).
“Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.” – Anonymous
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