RE: Christians - What would you do if it were discovered Jesus never existed?
September 7, 2015 at 10:15 am
(September 7, 2015 at 9:59 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote:(September 6, 2015 at 1:46 pm)Irrational Wrote: You're doing exactly what I've been suggesting about most mythicists. Do you not see it?
Suggesting that there have been various errors, both deliberate and otherwise, in the copying and translating of texts thousands of years old into various different languages is not an ad hoc argument. Suggesting that there is evidence that religious people can and do twist/fabricate the facts to support their story is also not an ad hoc argument. Suggesting that a religion started one way and developed into something else before splitting into literally thousands of squabbling factions is also not an ad hoc argument. Where is the ad hoc in what I'm saying?
It sure as hell is ad hoc especially without evidence to back your assertions. And please don't derail to other more general points. Let's stick to what the authentic Pauline Epistles say about Jesus first. Provide evidence that the words I provided are meant to be understood in the fashion you argue for, and not literally.
