RE: Did Jesus exist?
February 5, 2016 at 11:08 am
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2016 at 11:15 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 4, 2016 at 8:06 pm)Nestor Wrote: So... We can just say that there is no evidence for the existence of anyone, with perhaps a handful of names, who lived more than a 1,000 years ago - because no one can meet Rhythm's standardNo one? We're talking about jesus, and whats been presented to me in this thread. Aren;t we?
Quote:- and conclude therefore that maybe 100 people walked the earth (the ancient world according to mythicist logic).Batshit crazy, no worse than the inferences in thread so far, and not even related to the mythicist position.
Quote:Or we can use our best inferences by looking for details that might give us historical information in texts that aren't entirely free of error or mythology - like all historians do - to formulate a realistic and coherent picture of the past.Is your best inference -also- the criterion of embarrassment? Your best in that case, is still invalid. I'm fine with taking historical information from these texts, someone needs to tell me which ones and why, though. The historical jesus bit has so far been one part fallacious argument and nine parts amateur insults.
That's not history, not even by a lower standard than my own.
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