Gooss-- I think you may be underestimating the historicity studies that have gone on recently. When you say "Men of faith" have studied this, you are already skewing your outcome. Men of faith have a vested interest in proving their faith, just like the other way around. If your questioning was just like stupid haircuts and clothes for you, then I doubt you put any serious or objective acedemic thought into the question.
john9001-- Indeed. It is impossible to disprove the idea of God. After all, God is all-powerful. He could have changed all the historical records subtly (and pre-buried all the dinosaur bones) to allow all the scholars to prove that Zeus and Odin and Jupiter and Moses never existed, even though they all actually did exist just as he revealed in all of his divine scriptures. In fact I could believe that the entire universe was created two seconds ago, and everything that you thought existed before that (dinosaurs, Jesus, and even your immediate memory of reading this thread) never existed or happened, but is a result of the positioning of individual quarks in all our brains. There is of course no way for you to disprove this--it is entirely possible and just as likely as any other faith.
