(August 3, 2015 at 5:39 am)Aractus Wrote: Well there was a Jesus of Nazareth and he was like the one described in the Bible - what evidence do you have of a different character?Historians don't do this. Historians don't just say, "this text says so, so it happened." Just look up the Socratic problem. No serious historian says, "The historical Socrates must be like the one described in Plato's dialogues because Plato said so- what evidence do you have that he wasn't?" What evidence do you have he was? The Bible?
The problem is trying to find the man behind the myth. Am I to think the myth of George Washington is the same as the man? Parson Weems claims George Washington cut down a cherry tree - I guess I'll just take his word for it.
It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all. - Denis Diderot
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. - Gore Vidal
