RE: Christians - What would you do if it were discovered Jesus never existed?
September 8, 2015 at 11:47 am
(September 8, 2015 at 9:57 am)lkingpinl Wrote:(September 7, 2015 at 11:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: So, one by one....
In case any one is wondering where they got their ideas from.
Ok, but that only lends credence to the possibility of the story of his birth being borrowed from mythology. Why would Celsus even bring it up if the man called Jesus didn't exist? His inclusion of this passage lends credence to Jesus' existence in history and subsequently his non-belief in the Christians claims. Celsus was an opponent of Early Christianity, so to see claims such as this are not surprising. But think about it. If Jesus didn't exist, why attack the stories attributed to him and not just attack his actual existence, or mention him at all?
If someone plagiarizes Harry Potter and pretends it is original, I do not have to suddenly believe that Harry Potter is real to complain about it.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
