RE: Why Bart Ehrman Pisses Me Off..... sometimes
February 2, 2018 at 4:13 pm
(This post was last modified: February 2, 2018 at 4:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 2, 2018 at 3:58 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: The degree to which any plausible parts of the jesus story actually had any factual basis is really impossible to assess from this remove.Which is a very strong argument -against- considering any of it a fact, particularly after demolishing most of it as fantasy.
Quote:However, the more of the story one discard as implausible based on improbability, the more mundane would be the remaining parts of the story and therefore higher the probability that the remaining parts were based to some degree on actual, but mundane, occurrences.That's not a valid implication, at all. It's an assertion by fiat based upon probabilities that, just up above, you seemed to think were a black box. Show me the math.
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