@ Radical Liberal 2025; We’re told that Jesus fed five thousand men (plus women and children) with a boy’s lunch, the only miracle conveniently recorded in all four gospels.
Yet not one person outside those gospel writers ever bothered to mention it. No letters home. No excited gossip. No trail of oral tradition. Nothing.
And we’re also told that five hundred people saw the resurrected Jesus at once—an event that, if true, would have been the most extraordinary mass sighting in ancient history.
But again, not one of those five hundred ever wrote a word about it,
never told their children in a way that survived, never left a trace.
Instead, we’re asked to put our trust in four gospels written decades later, two of them by authors who never met Jesus at all,
and accept their second- and third-hand claims over the deafening silence of the thousands who supposedly witnessed him firsthand.
It’s a faith held together not by evidence, but by the absence of it.
