RE: Why Bart Ehrman Pisses Me Off..... sometimes
February 2, 2018 at 3:29 pm
(This post was last modified: February 2, 2018 at 3:36 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It's the reverse, anom. Plausibility is not actually an indicator of factuality. We write all sorts of plausible fiction. Stripping Hecules down to his plausible elements" wont advance the idea of a historical Hercules, nor will stripping Paul Bunyan to it's plausible elements advance the historical Monsieur Bunyan...and in the same fashion, stripping christ to jesus does nothing to establish jesus. The very fact that we have to begin by gutting the story shows how suspect it is. If you spend considerable time demonstrating how unreliable the narrative is, and why, it makes very little sense to then accept the narrative as reliable.
"This story is utter garbage, but I really like this part, so that's the true part!"
"This story is utter garbage, but I really like this part, so that's the true part!"
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