RE: Josephus and other contemporaries on Jesus
July 5, 2018 at 1:44 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2018 at 1:48 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Ultimately, anyone who isn;t a literal biblical inerrantist accepts some or most of the mythicist position. The last refuge of defense against the mythicist position usually revolves around the notion that there was "some guy" or "some guys" that these stories were based on. This fails as a defense because the mythicist position doesn;t assert otherwise. It may be true, but it;s irrelevantly true if so to say that the jesus myth (and it is a myth, period) is based on some guy or guys.
It;s equally true to say that paul bunyan is based on some french logger(s).
In all likelihood, equally true to say that the people who came up with stories about hercules had Some Guy™ in mind. I think Kevin Sorbo, personally.
People commonly base characters in stories on people they know or have heard of..or, even more frequently, composite characters. That doesn;t make the narrative any less mythical. The jesus that mythicists are referring to is the jesus of scripture. There was never any such person. There may have been people that the authors took as inspriation, but there needn;t be any...and whomever the authors may have taken as inspiration has as much relation to the jesus of scripture as a french logger has to paul bunyan, or kevin sorbo to hercules.
It;s equally true to say that paul bunyan is based on some french logger(s).
In all likelihood, equally true to say that the people who came up with stories about hercules had Some Guy™ in mind. I think Kevin Sorbo, personally.
People commonly base characters in stories on people they know or have heard of..or, even more frequently, composite characters. That doesn;t make the narrative any less mythical. The jesus that mythicists are referring to is the jesus of scripture. There was never any such person. There may have been people that the authors took as inspriation, but there needn;t be any...and whomever the authors may have taken as inspiration has as much relation to the jesus of scripture as a french logger has to paul bunyan, or kevin sorbo to hercules.
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