"After seeing rat droppings in our chicken coop we concluded that we have a problem with rats. Evidence has a way of forcing conclusions.”
Clearly not, there are still creationists and flat earthers. trump voters.
“Here now is a challenge to any skeptic of Christianity. Read the Gospel of John.”
Okay. The anonymous gospel written somewhere around 90 CE.
“If you put aside your presuppositions and read it with an open mind, you will be forced into the conclusion that if Jesus of Nazareth was lying, it flies in the face of every word He uttered about morality and truth.”
Uh…. Not necessarily.
We don’t have anything written directly by either Jesus or one of his disciples. This is at least third-hand from anyone who may have witnessed Jesus speaking. All kinds of things could have been added to or taken from the document to end up in the copy we can access.
“To ignore that evidence would be like standing in the heat of the Sahara and concluding that the sun is cold.”
No, Ray. This is more like trying to judge someone’s guilt by reading a reporter’s account of the trial published 60 years later. And anonymous reporter. Who may have had an agenda against the defendant or theprosecutor, or the entire legal system, we just don’t know.