(February 3, 2016 at 4:53 am)Rhythm Wrote: You might infer that the author was embarrassed by the contents, I'm being very generous...but what does that have to do with the historicity of the contents?
Ok, good question, but do you ever attempt to answer it with better (more parsimonious) answers than the one being suggested?
So a Gospel author is inconvenienced by a certain detail regarding the Messiah so he attempts to address it by coming up with an ad hoc explanation for it that would make it look more convincing to the readers. Why is he inconvenienced by it? And why try to fix it? If the theologically embarrassing detail was not true, why bother to inconvenience himself by mentioning it at all?