I am deeply dismayed by the argument presented by the much respectable Dave against Christ.

#1 He needs to invalidate 4 recurring accounts of MARTYRS about the life of Christ.

#2 He needs to find a way as to why prophecy alluding to Christ was fulfilled. I could enumerate a number such as the virgin birth (which he debunks, I could sympathize why…)(Isaiah), the birth place (Bethlehem in Micah), the visitation of the wise men (Psalms), the time (Enoch, Daniel), the lineage (Psalms), and etc.

For the events to be very accurate to what was already given information by that time in the form of prophecy, it would take the probability of 1×10^17. That statistic alone would shred the assertion of Jesus being an accidental mistake.

Perhaps Mary, the housewife was A GENIUS when it came to the Old Testament and was SECRETLY A GOD to make all this happen.

Perhaps Rome, was in on this that is why the tide of events took place the way they did? If that was the case, why would Rome seek to put a game-changer in the middle of nowhere with a population of nobodies, this is fantasy and a ludicrous one. Why would Rome seek to assimilate the Jews, a regional power (to be fair) but are no game-changer per say to turn the empire upside down. Even the Jews understood that it was Christ who was threathening the empire which is why they debated him using the “Caesar” argument.

Indeed, it was Christ who was a real threat to the empire’s solidarity. Why would the Empire seed its own destruction, for IT IS A FACT that the empire declined as it became homogenized with Christ (no more gladiators, became somewhat tame, needed barbarians to fight for them, etc.). The aforementioned are just SOME of the reasons for the high UNLIKELIHOOD that Jesus was staged. It is highly probable however that throughout the many pebbles of dirt and rock there is a diamond glistening, although one must find it amongst the common.

#3 How did Christianity stand up against the likes of Roman paganism which involved EVERYTHING that people ever wanted, in particular-war, drugs, sex, food, whatever. Why did the Roman populace even think that the religion of a peasant, a low class citizen out of nowhere is THE one so enticing that it broke the society. Imagine Disney getting beaten up by VeggieTales (yes, this is one weird analogy but nahh, suck it up). If the reason was to appeal to the common masses, then was not paganism the way to go? Is it not the same today, they offer porn, lsds, drugs, videogames, etc. Then where did the power of Christ come from? Why was He so revolutionary? Because He had what the world has not, TRUTH.

Truth amongst the millions of lies, can never ever be a lie for it is truth. Today amongst the many confusing ideologies such as evolution and heliocentrism among others, the truth is harder to find. Men are always searching and searching but they are stumped by their own indesiciveness and self-indulgence. They value their expectations more than reality and judge reality by LIES in their head. This what evolution is, this is what heliocentrism is, this is what modern medicine is. Thus, let us prove all things and hold fast to that which is good. Never holding on to our expectation of the world but receiving the truth of the world as IT IS. Then and only then can truth be revealed. For the truth was itself made incarnate, in Jesus Christ.

No the author is referring to the proximity in time between the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire (453 AD) and the *origins* of the British Empire, which do indeed date back to 1497 – the official beginning of the British Royalty’s operations in the Americas:

(Wikipedia) “The foundations of the British Empire were laid when England and Scotland were separate kingdoms. In 1496, King Henry VII of England, following the successes of Spain and Portugal in overseas exploration, commissioned John Cabot to lead an expedition to discover a northwest passage to Asia via the North Atlantic.[10] Cabot sailed in 1497, five years after the first voyage of Christopher Columbus, and made landfall on the coast of Newfoundland. He believed he had reached Asia,[11] and there was no attempt to found a colony. Cabot led another voyage to the Americas the following year but he did not return from this voyage and it is unknown what happened to his ships.[12]”

“No further attempts to establish English colonies in the Americas were made until well into the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, during the last decades of the 16th century.[13] In the meantime, Henry VIII’s 1533 Statute in Restraint of Appeals had declared “that this realm of England is an Empire”.[14]”