RE: Atheists being asked about the existence of Jesus
January 23, 2019 at 9:43 am
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2019 at 9:47 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 23, 2019 at 8:52 am)Acrobat Wrote: One can hold that Jesus existed confidently, based on the fact that historical explanations make far better sense of the data, than ahistorical explanations, all which stretch credulity. If the evidence as you suggest is weak, this wouldn't be the case.Says the man who promised goods he did not possess. When you say this, are you suggesting that the "data" which establishes this is the imaginary data you offered from earlier?
Or is it the consensus of scholars , equally imaginary, also from earlier?
In reality, no one is confident about the historical status of some jesus, or even paul. Each historicist is an ahistoricist with regards to every other competing hypothetically historical character. Much like the analog between theism and atheism...in point of fact. Any time someone begins to talk about "the historical jesus" a necessarry question is "which one of them" - and lacking a solid answer to that, the whole enterprise of discussing this as settled fact is more than a little bit deceptive.
Personally, I'm giving you a mulligan..because I don't think that your silliness here has been intentional, I just don't think you know very much about this. Even though you swear to have debated the subjects luminaries (lol) - which I'm starting to think is a way of telling us that you read something online and then yelled at the internet.... is all. That...you're not going to get a mulligan for.
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