Quote (addone @ Jul 14 2023 07:57am)
Lol we have thousands of pictures, records, signatures, legal documents, numerous high ranking official sources who witnessed this. Patents, videos, there are numerous people who have met Einstein in person. Lincoln was president of united States lol that's recognizable by any country on the planet as undisputed fact. We have multitude of physical memorabilia from both. We have direct decendants of Einstein, Nobel prize records etc etc etc.
All we have of Jesus is Bible and a few mention of him some 125 or 300 years later. Not a single piece of literature around the time he was alive. No official source, no some dear diary today I went to see Jesus for a sermon records. Not a single person bothered to take notes of this great messiah. It's like no one was aware or mentioned Einstein existed until 2300 then he begins to be mentioned. These Authors have never met jesus and all of a sudden writing about him +300 years later. You would think at least one of his followers would of made a footnote somewhere at the time when he was alive. Like how do you not record something as big as Resurrection healing hundreds of people, performing miracles etc. Suspicious as fuck.
What we have are the original manuscripts of Scripture that still exist.
Codex Leningradensis is the oldest Hebrew manuscript of the entire Old Testament. This codex was found in Egypt and is now at The National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg
Codex Vaticanus (“Book from the Vatican”) is one of the earliest complete manuscripts of the Bible. Written on vellum or calf’s skin, the codex has been in the Vatican Library at least since 1475.
There are four great uncial codices: Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus, and Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus. Codex Alexandrinus was the first of the great uncial codices to be utilized for textual criticism and is considered one of the most reliable witnesses to Revelation. Codex Alexandrinus was brought to England by Eastern Orthodox Patriarch Cyril Lucar in 1621, and is now in the British Library.
https://hc.edu/museums/dunham-bible-museum/tour-of-the-museum/past-exhibits/biblical-manuscripts/#:~:text=Codex%20Leningradensis%20is%20the%20oldest,(formerly%20known%20as%20Leningrad).
Using the same criteria by which we judge other historical works, not only is the Bible reliable, it is more reliable than any other comparable writings. Reliability is a question of truthfulness and accurate copying. Writings that are historically and factually correct and that have been faithfully preserved over time would be considered reliable. Higher levels of historical verification and better confidence in transmission make it easier to determine whether an ancient work is worthy of trust. By those measures, we can consider the Bible reliable.
As is true with any historical work, not every single detail in the Bible can be directly confirmed. The Bible cannot be called unreliable simply because it contains parts which cannot be confirmed or have not yet been confirmed. What’s reasonable is to expect it to be accurate where it can be checked. This is the primary test of reliability, and here the Bible has a stellar track record. Not only have many of its historical details been confirmed, but certain portions that were once in doubt have been verified by later archaeology.
For example, archaeological finds in the 1920s confirmed the presence of cities much like Ur, described in Genesis 11, which some skeptics doubted had existed so early.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/160311-ur-iraq-trade-royal-cemetery-woolley-archaeology#:~:text=Ur%20emerged%20as%20a%20settlement,seals%20that%20mention%20the%20city.
https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-reliable.htmlGenesis 11:27-28
27 This is the account of Terah’s family line.
Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot. 28 While his father Terah was still alive, Haran died in
Ur of the Chaldeans, in the land of his birth.
The Old Testament, as well, shows all evidence of being reliably transmitted. When the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the 1940s, they were 800 years older than any other available manuscripts. Comparing earlier and later manuscripts showed a meticulous approach to transmission, once again adding to our confidence that what we have today represents the original texts.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Dead-Sea-ScrollsPresent location: Israel Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls#:~:text=At%20the%20same%20time%20they,Book%20at%20the%20Israel%20Museum.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Museum