(October 13, 2017 at 12:28 am)KevinM1 Wrote: Using the gospels as historical documents doesn't mean historians believe the supernatural aspects of the tale. It's mostly just an anthropological data point.
This seems to be a common tactic in apologetics, but it's fallacious. That the gospels are used by historians, or even that it got some mundane things correct about certain people or places doesn't lend credence to the mythological claims within. That's an entirely separate burden of proof that needs to be met.
Exactly! And that is what my point is.
