Philosophical Failures of Christian Apologetics, Part 8: Historical Jesus
Channel: Philosophy: Engineered!
Date: 2015-02-08

There are rules that must be followed in order to properly call something "historical."  The Bible doesn't follow them.

Read the script here:  


https://philosophyengineered.blogspot.com/2014/09/part-viii-historical-jesus.html

For more information on source Criticism, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_criticism

The unreliability of eye-witness testimony:

http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/Eyewitness-Misidentification.php
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-it/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_testimony#Reliability 

All 4 canonical gospels are written by anonymous Greek-speaking Christians living 40-70 years after the death of Jesus, not by eye-witnesses: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorship_of_the_Bible#Gospels_and_Acts
http://www.christianbiblereference.org/jintro.htm
http://www.rationalresponders.com/the_gospels_are_anonymous_works_and_none_are_eyewitness_accounts

We have no original copies of any book in the New Testament, and most of the copies we have come from many centuries after the originals were lost: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_manuscript#New_Testament_manuscripts

The new testament contains many contradictions: 

http://www.errancy.com/ratings/overall-ratings/
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/paul_carlson/nt_contradictions.html
http://www.skeptically.org/bible/id6.html