DEBUNKING THE CONSPIRACY THEORY

[Randy Carson]

I always love these sorts of apologetics, like little echo chambers, where the  apologist presents a simplified version of a contention with his position, and then a list of highly massaged talking points, each one specifically arranged for the apologist to knock down. When he's done painting bullseyes around his bullet holes- all conspicuously without any input from people who actually hold the position he's purporting to rebut- the apologist somehow has it in his head that he's proven his point, rather than just his ability to arrange facsimiles of counterpositions such that his talking points "rebuts" them. It's almost cute, watching them think that going entirely negative in their arguments can add up to positive evidence. So much of apologetics is just about shitting on the real work of others

Esq-

I'll give you this: you appear to be among the brighter members of the forum. So, you may have the ability to actually study the source material that occupies professional historians and to read their analysis of it.

So, why not use your obvious intellectual prowess to explain to everyone here why several thousand PhD's around the globe - each of whom having spent decades of their lives studying ancient languages, travelling to foreign countries, pouring over ancients parchments, scrolls and papyrii, etc - are simply WRONG in their professional judgment that Jesus was a real person and that the five minimal facts that emerge from their studies are valid?

Alternatively, if you do concede that the five minimal facts cannot be denied, then would you care to propose your own theory which takes into consideration and accounts for all five of these facts with greater probability and explanatory scope than the Christian argument for a supernatural resurrection?

Because so far, I don't see that you actually have any real explanation...just a lot of empty denials.