RE: Josephus and other contemporaries on Jesus
July 5, 2018 at 1:37 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2018 at 1:38 pm by Minimalist.)
(July 5, 2018 at 10:29 am)mh.brewer Wrote: Help me out here guys. If jesus was not a god (son of god) then why does it really matter if there was a poser(s) or not?
This feels like a bunch of mental masturbation.
Actually, it doesn't. It is merely an academic argument where on the one hand you have people pointing out that there is no direct contemporary evidence for the allegedly wondrous things the poser did and others who swear their bullshit is true.
Most of those scholars they are so quick to embrace utterly reject the miracle nonsense which brings us to what H. L. Mencken noted.
Quote:Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if He did not, then it is sheer nonsense.
Mark me down as a vote for "sheer nonsense."