RE: Did Jesus exist?
January 28, 2016 at 6:16 pm
(This post was last modified: January 28, 2016 at 6:25 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The "embarrassing details" defense. There isn't enough conformity to the preceding myths or legends? If it was myth or legend they would have simply written it in a more confirming way? Do you think that the people who wrote the gospels actually -knew- the older myths that well? If I write a book that doesn't stick close enouigh to Star Wars cannon as a sequel, does that mean that my book is no longer sci-fi?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docetism
Quote:Several of the same objections to Doherty's thesis can be made about this one - if this was the case, why are there no remnants of debates with or condemnations of those who believed the earlier version and maintained there was no historical Jesus at all? And why don't any of Christianity's enemies use the fact that the original Jesus sect didn't believe in a historical Jesus as an argument against the new version of the sect? Did everyone just forget?um...no.....we didn't forget, though there was an attempt to eradicate the notion.........people point -constantly- to the confusion among early christian sects in criticism..........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docetism
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