Christians, would you have saved Jesus, if you had he chance?

[madog]

 

1) So "no" on the question of cultural-historical criteria for judgment of likelihood? Would a 1st century Jewish fisherman from Galilee who is inventing a mythological god-man think, "I better write this down"? 

Simple, read what I said .... If "Jesus and his father" wanted their message recorded for posterity they would have recorded it or asked for it to be recorded .....

As you point out a 1st century fisherman wouldn't think to write something down ... If there was a "Jesus" he would know that ... if he wanted the message written down he would have asked ....

By your premise the New Testament came about by an afterthought, by a fisherman that fortunately lived long enough to write it down before he died ...

More likely he wanted to impress by claiming to be a disciple of the son of God and to get his novel accepted by his peers ...