[smsmith40]

This is an interesting debate, but I'm not sure where it gets us. For my part, I think the Bible is probably as accurate as a 2000 year old document, written 50-100 years after the events it describes can be.

It is, obviously, full of inconsistencies and contradictions but personally, I am fairly convinced that a historical figure called Jesus Christ, live, preached and died, probably executed.

I think there is reasonable evidence in other sources to be able to say that this was the chain of events that originated the Christian Church.

What is not proven, and in my mind unprovable is the whole Virgin Birth, Son of God, Resurrection thing. Without that then christinaity is just another personality cult.