so, your basis for the dismissal of the existence of God is that not enough people knew about him for him to be real.
REALLY.
so, i guess
i didn't exist because YOU never knew of ME until i started posting on bgol? so for the 26 or so years of my existence before you knew of me just didn't happen...cause
you didn't know about me. i mean, based on the EVIDENCE you have i only began to exist 12 years ago.
even though OTHER people had PROOF of my existence, because YOU had no ACCESS to that information, you DISMISS it now that it's available to you.
according to YOUR logic, i SHOULD have announced my birth to ALL THE WORLD AS SOON as it HAPPENED, instead of making myself known according to MY TIMETABLE. that would be the ONLY WAY to legitimize my being here. right?
even though now i'm known by people on 6 continents, and they have some knowledge of my history, none of that matters cause i'm TOO NEW.
sounds exactly like what those folks are saying about Obama's birth certificate. there is ample proof of his U.S. birth occurring, but they have decided to just not believe it.
this is why i KEEP asking you why you WILL NOT consider Flavius Josephus, Cornelius Tacitus, and Plinius Secundus and what they said about Jesus Christ, because there you DO HAVE SECULAR PROOF of his existence, but you REFUSE to consider it, refuse to acknowledge it, and continue to be a COWARD about it.
MAN UP and stop being a little girl concerning this information. it KILLS your ARGUMENT DEAD.
MY RELIGION started about 25 to 30 AD. the book that refers to the ORIGINATOR of MY RELIGION tells of secular corroborated WORLD HISTORY before the beginning of MY RELIGION.
now if you were to get off into the teachings of my religion, this is what it says of the ancient people who did not know MY GOD by name:
Romans 2:14-16 (King James Version)
14 For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another
16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.
so those people you named had an instinctual knowledge of MY GOD, though the details of his existence was foreign to them.
the bible goes on to say of them:
Acts 17:23-30
23 For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
25 Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;
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And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
29 Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
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And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
so according to MY RELIGION, God knew that those folks needed to learn about him, and chose to make himself available to them according to HIS time, not YOURS.
ninja please. secular Mesopotamian history includes the same names of people, the same places, the same events, and the same time-lines as the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah from the old testament of the Bible.
he was chillin'. where were you?