RE: Why did pagans not take any notice of Jesus?
February 24, 2019 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: February 24, 2019 at 6:14 pm by fredd bear.)
(February 24, 2019 at 5:42 pm)PRJA93 Wrote:(February 24, 2019 at 5:38 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Once again, only one or two modern scholars subscribe to the mythicist POV.
There's very little evidence for a historical Jesus.
The general consensus among scholars is that the historicity of Jesus has essentially been proved. The view of Jesus is myth is very much a fringe position. BUT that does not prove it is necessarily wrong..
I choose to use Occam's razor; based on the amount of information, it is more likely than not that Jesus existed. In discussions I usually treat the existence of Jesus as a given. Using formal logic, all logical propositions have the caveat "IF A------" IE IF Jesus' reality is true, THEN -----
A sound logical inference is true IF AND ONLY IF the premise is true.
The historicity of Jesus is the question if Jesus of Nazareth can be regarded as a historical figure. Virtually all New Testament scholars and Near East historians, applying the standard criteria of historical-critical investigation, find that the historicity of Jesus is effectively certain,[1][2] although they differ about the beliefs and teachings of Jesus as well as the accuracy of the details of his life that have been described in the gospels.[3][4][5][note 1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historicity_of_Jesus
