(March 7, 2020 at 6:14 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:Quote:the dude has nothing to go on. he speaks or gives explanation based on what he identifies as a lack of information. it's all speculation based on speculatory work of others. For people who pretend to demand proof for everything, you seeming overly willing to drop this requirement if and when someone is telling you what you want to hear. Not one of his 'facts' can stand up to any serious academic scrutiny. in fact if you consider the books he dismisses/the gospel and any other writtings on christ the church retains, there is more in the way of written academic proof for christ, than supports his various speculations.
The dude is a snake oil sales man he simply knows how to package bullshit in a way you 'smart people' love to gobble down information.
Spoken like someone who has read reviews of Ehrman, rather than Ehrman.
Boru
To give credit where "credit" is due, I remember reading a review by an evangelical Christian of A Marginal Jew by Father John Meier, a modernist Catholic theologian, and this reviewer at least had the honesty to cite his sources as not being from A Marginal Jew, but, rather, a different source who had quoted from that work! In other words, this evangelical Christian author, it is clear, had not even read the book by Professor Meier that he was reviewing!
