RE: Christians, would you have saved Jesus, if you had he chance?
June 19, 2016 at 9:18 am
(This post was last modified: June 19, 2016 at 9:23 am by Ignorant.)
(June 19, 2016 at 8:47 am)robvalue Wrote: I find people making stuff up for their own agenda to be much more plausible than the most important man who ever lived not being written about for decades or noticed by any other parties. [1]
Of course, even if they were trying to write about him, there's every reason to believe the story bears little resemblance to any actual events. [2]
1) Based on what criteria of plausibility? Does your criteria take cultural-historical context into account?
2) Can you name a few of those reasons?
[responding to your next post now...]
(June 19, 2016 at 9:11 am)robvalue Wrote: If they were eye witnesses, they were suspiciously old by the time they wrote it, and their memory was going to be unreliable. [1]
If they were not, they were going by stories being passed down. Similarly unreliable. [2]
The fact that obviously made-up stuff is included is a giveaway that we're dealing with deluded people,or ones happy to make shit up. [3] Either way, we can't take too seriously what they have written. [4]
1) Fair enough
2) Sure, but multiple attestation may balance the singular unreliability.
3) See #1 from my response above this one.
4) Fair enough
