RE: The Anonymous Gospel Manuscripts
February 1, 2016 at 9:14 am
(This post was last modified: February 1, 2016 at 9:27 am by The Grand Nudger.)
This is pathetic. We're giving this shit a pass one one hand by saying "well, people probably gave incorrect information or embellished when they cribbed". Yes...yes they probably did? Establishing the truth of one gospel...historically, by reference to another gospel? Christ. That's checking one chapter of Harry Potter against another.......and -you- just told us they were "embellished".
...and on the other hand /w... "we pick out the non-magical bits in a magic story, that's history"....... Legendary narratives -do- render the narrative suspect historically. If you think that's absurd I can't help you. You can still propose that there was some core personage (this is the difference between legendary and mythical in a nutshell) but it's senseless to point at a narrative you -know- to be filled with fiction for some fact. It may be there, but how would you know which? How could you know that the color of the hair of the main character wasn't just as fictional as their flying through the air? How could you know that the main flying character himself weren't fictional, with some other personage in the narrative being the historical personage? Perhaps "jesus" is just a mouth to put your philosophy into.
I'm glad that we don't have to rely on either of you two for our history.
...and on the other hand /w... "we pick out the non-magical bits in a magic story, that's history"....... Legendary narratives -do- render the narrative suspect historically. If you think that's absurd I can't help you. You can still propose that there was some core personage (this is the difference between legendary and mythical in a nutshell) but it's senseless to point at a narrative you -know- to be filled with fiction for some fact. It may be there, but how would you know which? How could you know that the color of the hair of the main character wasn't just as fictional as their flying through the air? How could you know that the main flying character himself weren't fictional, with some other personage in the narrative being the historical personage? Perhaps "jesus" is just a mouth to put your philosophy into.
I'm glad that we don't have to rely on either of you two for our history.
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