RE: Did Jesus exist?
January 28, 2016 at 9:33 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2016 at 9:37 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 28, 2016 at 9:29 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Which historical documents do you have for the existence of Hercules?
Moot point as it's the very question we're considering. We have the stories, we have the opinions of scholars contemporary to the stories (and the many centuries that followed). Euhemeris proposes for the greek myths what you propose now for the christian myths. This is an old notion. It hasn't, in all of the time since Euhemeris, advanced an iota by evidentiary standards. Conceptually there's nothing wrong with the contention, but if we're looking for historicity, or a brute fact of history, we're looking for more than a concept.
Quote: Do you believe that Jesus Caesar existed? That he crossed the Rubicon?
I don't believe anything about Ceaser. I don't know whether he crossed the rubicon or not. If someone wants me to assign a truth level to that statement they'll need to support it, just as the historicity of jesus must be supported. Not by the history of belief and believers, not by criticism of straw, in it's own right.
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