Quote:Especially when you consider his other argument: the Gospels probably don't depict him accurately at all.
But Ehrman has no evidence at all except to cite the gospel accounts. Here is his problem. He has spent an entire career demolishing the NT writings as fraudulent, edited, error-ridden, anonymous musings of early believers. In that he is right. But he cannot then turn around and use them as evidence of anything. It is as if he has pissed into a small pond for 35 years and now wants to say "hey guys, it's okay. I found a spot you can drink from." No thanks, Bart.
Richard Carrier, who is a historian and not a textual critic, has examined the same "evidence" and come to the conclusion that ole jesus is a mythological creation just like every other god ever created by the imaginations of humans. And you can bet your ass that xhristards will insist all other gods are indeed mythic but their boy is "special."
