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Once again, you evade the questions.

Find out when the nearest manuscripts of the Gallic Wars have been found.

I'm not suggesting anything, except that you do further research.

You seem very sure that Caesar existed and that he 'wrote his own stuff.' I just want you to back it up historically.

It will take a while. Get back to me with the facts.

Then do some study about the authenticity of the Gospels using the same methods, and see what you find.

I'm a professor, orion. I just want you do do some homework before you say anything else that further reveals your ignorance on this subject.

> I'm a professor > You seem very sure that Caesar existed and that he 'wrote his own stuff.' I just want you to back it up historically. It can be backed up through inductive reasoning. Caesar's existence is not known from a single source, but from a wide variety of sources all dating from the same era, and largely agreeing. This is not the case for Christ. Many of the early reports of Christ are ignored as they are heretical. If you tell me that you ate toast for breakfast this morning, it does not take me much to believe. if you tell me you had refried Velociraptor for breakfast, I will need rather more evidence. Similarly, you tell me that there was once a brilliant military leader who gained political power, that's not terribly exceptional. Tell me about someone who coudl walk on water, materialize food, raise the dead and tinker with peoples souls, I'll want rather more than your say-so. And when your say-so is as inconsistant as the Gospels... well, you've got some 'splainin' to do.

OK, that was annoying... one more time:

> I'm a professor

[insert retort about ivory-tower academics HERE]

> You seem very sure that Caesar existed and that he 'wrote his own stuff.' I just want you to back it up historically.

It can be backed up through inductive reasoning. Caesar's existence is not known from a single source, but from a wide variety of sources all dating from the same era, and largely agreeing. This is not the case for Christ. Many of the early reports of Christ are ignored as they are heretical. If you tell me that you ate toast for breakfast this morning, it does not take me much to believe. if you tell me you had refried Velociraptor for breakfast, I will need rather more evidence. Similarly, you tell me that there was once a brilliant military leader who gained political power, that's not terribly exceptional. Tell me about someone who coudl walk on water, materialize food, raise the dead and tinker with peoples souls, I'll want rather more than your say-so. And when your say-so is as inconsistant as the Gospels... well, you've got some 'splainin' to do.