RE: Freeing guilty criminals at Passover?
August 8, 2020 at 6:11 am
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2020 at 6:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 7, 2020 at 1:00 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Anyhow, I don't like these confident claims like "Jesus never existed". We don't really know. And scholars who study the NT for a living mostly reckon there was some Jesus.
We do know, and we can say with confidence that the character in the nt was never a flesh and blood man. Not even the people who think there was some "real jesus" think you can find him in the nt. The nt is about a christ, not a man named jesus.
The only thing that nt scholars agree on about jesus, is that he existed. They don't agree on any of the details of his hypothetical life, and the only details which are considered are based on the criteria of embarrassment, and the criteria of probability. We imagine what a regular joe in 30ad would have been like, and then we imagine what stories would embarass that regular 30ad joe, and there's our historic jesus candidate. There are many. Apply this to any other myth, see if you're content with the results of historic thor.
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