RE: Did Jesus exist?
February 7, 2016 at 9:25 am
(This post was last modified: February 7, 2016 at 9:30 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The stories are complementary and -generally- consistent because they were chosen to be so. Pick any attribute of the historical jesi you have in mind and I will find apocrypha that disagrees.
The criterion of embarrassment is a joke. It's a joke when they argue for magical jesus with it, it's a joke when they argue for historical jesus with it. It just can't tell you what you want to know.
The weakness of the case for some other historical figure(or a large group of them) does not make a case for historical jesus.
I understand that people are approaching this from the "how else do we explain christianity" ledge...but that's just the die for lie song and dance worded another way. All that is needed for jesus stories, all that is needed for jesus stories to agree with each other, and all that is needed for people to believe in jesus stories..............are jesus stories. Not historical jesi. I know it's unflattering, you want to believe it took more for people to believe, that theres a satisfying explanation for the rise of christianity. It doesn't, and there isn't.
Look at all the christians around you. The stories are all they know, and they believe.
The criterion of embarrassment is a joke. It's a joke when they argue for magical jesus with it, it's a joke when they argue for historical jesus with it. It just can't tell you what you want to know.
The weakness of the case for some other historical figure(or a large group of them) does not make a case for historical jesus.
I understand that people are approaching this from the "how else do we explain christianity" ledge...but that's just the die for lie song and dance worded another way. All that is needed for jesus stories, all that is needed for jesus stories to agree with each other, and all that is needed for people to believe in jesus stories..............are jesus stories. Not historical jesi. I know it's unflattering, you want to believe it took more for people to believe, that theres a satisfying explanation for the rise of christianity. It doesn't, and there isn't.
Look at all the christians around you. The stories are all they know, and they believe.
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