(April 5, 2020 at 8:28 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There's an easy way to see how committed any christian is to the scholarly consensus. The scholarly consensus is that the character in new magic book is not the historical jesus.
What is damning, in my opinion, to evangelical Christian apologetics (Josh McDowell, Gary Habermas, William Lane Craig), is the complete lack of any contemporary mention by pagan or Jewish authors who were contemporaneous with Jesus about his existence. While some will take this as evidence that Jesus never existed, I believe that he did exist, but the reason why individuals such as Seneca never mention him is because he was not worth mentioning; in other words, they knew a first century religious loon when they saw or heard about one.
