RE: Why can't Christians Verify Exactly Where Jesus Was Buried?
September 30, 2016 at 1:34 am
(This post was last modified: September 30, 2016 at 1:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 30, 2016 at 1:26 am)Aractus Wrote: Okay well let me be clear. Most scholars - including atheists like Ehrman - agree that Jesus delivered teachings and went around performing faith healings and exorcisms.What's "most scholars" evidence of that?
Quote:Just like a chiropractor goes around performing chiropracty today. Was this activity curative? In some regards it should have been, because we know about the placebo effect. And let's be really clear about this - the placebo effect can improve a patient's condition or even cure them of an illness. So by merely practising pseudo-medicine, some of his patients would have seen actual improvement. But others would have perceived benefit, even if no actual benefit had taken place.Fan fiction.
Quote:Now let me be even clearer about what I'm saying here. Even in the modern world there are clear examples of people who believe in pseudo-medicine, let alone the ancient world where the critical evaluation skills of the public were much lower. For Christ's sake, one of the lecturers in Public Health said that she sees a chiropractor! This is a respected academic who has contributed to peer review publications, and even they are willing to believe there's some therapeutic benefit to chiropracty for their own personal health. Everyone thinks they are an expert on their own health, and often attribute their well-being to causal relationships which are non-existent.Relevance to a historical christ?
Quote:Now in terms of history, there have been faith healers since the dawn of time, and they still exist today. So I don't know where you get the idea that such events don't take place in the world.Honestly, who thinks that?
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