(April 30, 2016 at 3:15 am)Redbeard The Pink Wrote:It seems you may need to lower your notion of "certainty" when examining questions of which our data is chiefly, even exclusively, derived from the written record.(April 30, 2016 at 2:57 am)Mudhammam Wrote: True, and trivial. Glad you're catching on that everybody in history is written into books from the standpoint of their authors.
What's trivial is squabbling over whether Earth's most popular imaginary friend is based on a singular, historical figure.
That said, even a mundane Jesus has less demonstrable historicity than, say, Socrates, so I still don't really see any evidence that justifies the certainty of the pro-historicity crowd in that case (not that it matters a jot).
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
