Sentences with phrase «2nd hand accounts»

Joseph Smith also has a long list of 1st and 2nd hand accounts of his magical healing powers.

The gospels were 2nd hand accounts, recorded many years after the alleged events and there is no extrinsic corroborating evidence indicating the alleged witnesses were there at the correct time / place (and again, the authors of the gospels are widely acknowledged not to be the apostles for which they are named).

One might think that an actual resurrection would have been captured immediately in a contemporaneous written record corroborated by many, many independent Jewish and Roman sources rather than a few vested 2nd hand accounts decades after the alleged event.

Christianity is based on a book comprised of 2nd hand accounts and beyond as well as being translated across multiple languages (some of which being extinct) to illustrate parables on morality.