Jesus was also accused of being a fraud by followers of other "sons of gods
Post your source written by an eyewitness.
Don't post something written by somebody who only vaguely knew Jesus, or someone who didn't know him at all nor knew the genuine eyewitnesses.
There are hostile references to Jesus in Jewish and Greek sources, but they aren't by eyewitnesses, people who interviewed the eyewitnesses, nor people who knew the people that knew the eyewitnesses.
So, we agree that eyewitness testimony means basically nothing, right?
Tell the judge that when a series of eyewitnesses testify against you in court.
That doesn't make any of the claims of the Bible or Jesus true. It just means that people believed they were true.
Correct. The apostles
genuinely believed they saw Jesus after the crucifixion. You have a hard time convincing me a mass hallucination is the best explanation.
Lots of people died because Marshall Applewhite convinced them that they would be teleported to a nearby comet if they put on Nike's and drank his Kool-aid. Do you think
Thanks for making the case that Jesus' followers did not just lie their asses off and fabricate the whole story, because that's what many atheists claim. You can't claim they were just lying about everything, if the evidence is they genuinely believed what they were reporting.
Belief is a huge part of your life.
You believe the pharmacist can be trusted not to give you poison. Otherwise, you would bring your chemistry kit to test the Rx you receive.
You believe a finely tuned, lawfully organized, mathematically rational universe popped into existence by random chance and due to irrational and inanimate physical conditions.
Sure. People, in similar situations today, believe they see dead loved ones. Followers of Apollonius believed they saw him after his death. Do you think they did or do you believe, of all of the "sons of gods" before and after Jesus, the Christian son of God just happens to be the one legit one? If so, why? Nothing you've presented as distinguishing factors is unique to Jesus or his followers.
You are attempting to use a terrible analogy and equate it to the historical accounts of Jesus of Nazareth.
There is only one genuine written source about Appolonius, and it is not written by an eyewitness, somebody who knew the eyewitnesses, or somebody who was even remotely connected to his circle of students.
The single primary source on Appolonius was written in the third century AD.
Appolonius lived in the first century AD.
So, your source is not a witness account, and it's written in the third century long after the events purportedly described.
Sorry, that is just very weak and dubious historical documentation,, and I'm not as naive as you to consider it good evidence.