THINK ABOUT THIS: What of Christianity and the Spider Man Fallacy?

Archeologists discovered the Pool of Silom in the City of David area of Jerusalem in 2004. But does that discovery in and of itself prove that Jesus spread mud on a blind man’s eyes and told him to go wash in the Pool of Silom, whereupon his sight was restored, as told at John 9:1-11?

No, to claim that it does prove the miracle would be an illustration of the Fallacy of Spider Man that Christian apologists are sometimes accused of committing. Just because there are skyscrapers and spiders in museums does not prove Spider Man actually existed.

Erik Manning of Is Jesus Alive? takes up the issue of Christians and the Spider Man Fallacy in the following 5:57 video and demonstrates that the arguments on behalf of the accuracy and reliability of the Gospels are typically much more nuanced than might first appear when the skeptics’ claim is taken at face value:

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