RE: Did Jesus exist?
February 3, 2016 at 5:09 am
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2016 at 5:11 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 3, 2016 at 5:03 am)Irrational Wrote: Ok, good question, but do you ever attempt to answer it with better (more parsimonious) answers than the one being suggested?Like...."it was part of the tradition" or "because the author thought it was true".........you mean?
Quote: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?Wouldn't know, wouldn't know where to begin to determine that, and it doesn't matter anyway.
Quote:And why try to fix it?Wouldn't know, wouldn't know where to begin to determine that, and it doesn't matter anyway.
Quote:If the theologically embarrassing detail was not true, why bother to inconvenience himself by mentioning it at all?see up at the very top.....but it doesn't matter anyway....
The trouble, and you're already running into it, is that your inferences are not valid, not that your propositions are unsound. Toiling away trying to establish your propositions is avoiding the problem the argument -actually- has. Howsabout we handle that first and then see how sound the propositions are?
So imagine that you do know what embarrasses an author, and that you do know why he tries to fix it, and that you know why he mentions it. What does -any- of that have to do with the historicity of the contents?
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