{"id":33399,"date":"2016-02-27T09:26:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-27T14:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=33399"},"modified":"2016-02-27T09:26:21","modified_gmt":"2016-02-27T14:26:21","slug":"no-evidence-for-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/02\/no-evidence-for-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"No Evidence for Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I have heard once again the ridiculous claim that there is \u201cno evidence for a historical Jesus.\u201d Once again, I must point out that young-earth creationists say the same thing, \u201cthere is no evidence for evolution.\u201d In both cases, either the individuals really mean \u201cthere is evidence, but I do not accept the conclusions experts draw about it,\u201d or otherwise they are simply ignorant and showing this off.<\/p>\n<p>How do you respond when someone makes a dogmatic assertion which clearly conveys that they don\u2019t know what they are talking about?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have heard once again the ridiculous claim that there is \u201cno evidence for a historical Jesus.\u201d Once again, I must point out that young-earth creationists say the same thing, \u201cthere is no evidence for evolution.\u201d In both cases, either the individuals really mean \u201cthere is evidence, but I do not accept the conclusions experts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":26234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,39,64],"tags":[3215,4656,4660,5677,7845],"class_list":["post-33399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-evolution-science","category-historical-jesus","category-mythicism","tag-evidence","tag-historicity","tag-history","tag-jesus","tag-myth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No Evidence for Jesus<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I have heard once again the ridiculous claim that there is &quot;no evidence for a historical Jesus.&quot; Once again, I must point out that young-earth\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/02\/no-evidence-for-jesus.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No Evidence for Jesus\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have heard once again the ridiculous claim that there is &quot;no evidence for a historical Jesus.&quot; Once again, I must point out that young-earth\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2016\/02\/no-evidence-for-jesus.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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