(June 19, 2012 at 1:01 am)gomtuu77 Wrote:(June 19, 2012 at 12:54 am)cratehorus Wrote: What???Let me see if I can put it differently. If one is wondering where the stories of Jesus came from, it is probably distinctly and obviously unhelpful to assume his nonexistence, a position not held by the vast majority of religous and secular scholarship for the last 2,000 years, including today. Rather, I would simply check out all primary source material that is available and attempt to answer the question; what best accounts for the existence of these stories or myths? The non-existence of such a person wouldn't be the first answer to the question that popped out at me. One might as well assume that the 60 million deaths between 1938 to 1945 had nothing to do with war and yet still attempt to answer the question..."what caused the 60 million deaths between 1938 and 1945?". Do you not see the problem?
Very good, all you need to do now is produce some contemporary accounts of his life and doings and we'll proceed from there.
If you're not supposed to ride faster than your guardian angel can fly then mine had better get a bloody SR-71.