The First Century Void

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You remove any data which you find inconvenient and gladly swallow anything which tells you what you want to hear.

Moving on.

From Pg. 80 of "Is This Not the Carpenter?"  Edited by Thompson and Verenna.

We see what need there is for a historical jesus... and it has fuckall to do with "history."

The mainreason for holding to the historicity of the figure of Jesus, as his activities
are narrated in the Gospels, resides not primarily in historical evidence but
derives instead from a modern theological necessity. Had Jesus not lived
among mortals and, more importantly, had he not died and been raised
from the dead, the kernel of Christian theology would lose its essence.