Thursday, April 20, 2006

Question #2 for Brian

In your first answer, you have more or less made the argument that because there are no accounts of Jesus’ life from inside Jesus’ lifetime, we have credible evidence that Jesus did not exist.

Socrates wrote nothing in his lifetime and the only first-hand accounts we have of his life are Plato and Xenophon -- both clearly sympathizers with Socrates, each of whom wrote about Socrates at least a decade after his alleged death, and their accounts are not identical. Can we reasonably say that Socrates was a fiction?