(February 27, 2015 at 4:38 am)TimOneill Wrote:(February 27, 2015 at 4:26 am)Alex K Wrote: I asked Richard Carrier that on his blog, basically that I don't even understand the question "was Jesus a person" for precisely the reasons you bring up. And his response was basically, yes, that is exactly the problem you have when attacking the historicity question, and that he deals with it in his essays on the topic.I should try to find the linky...
You seriously don't understand the question? People attribute quotes and ideas to Einstein all the time. In fact, "Einstein" has become a kind of cultural shorthand for "a wise, urbane and tolerant smart person", with stories and memes about "him" that are often contradictory and a few actually impossible. So if I ask "is the Einstein I keep seeing referred to on the internet based on a historical person?" you genuinely don't understand what I'm asking?
I was specifically talking about Jesus in whose case supernatural properties are part of he very concept of the person. Einstein is a different matter. But the point is still that the question is not a yes/no question, for Einstein or for Jesus.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
