(June 17, 2021 at 7:01 pm)Brian37 Wrote: There most certainly are real people and real places mentioned in the NT. But that is misleading. For example, the city of New York existed long before the creation of the comic book character Superman. So by theists logic, Superman is real because after the fact, a comic book writer mentioned/depicted a real city in it's comic book.
No theologian I have ever run into or debated, has ever been willing to consider, that real places and people were peppered into the story after the fact, in retrofitting to lend a false sense of credibility.
We can all prove that Abraham Lincoln was a real person, but nobody sane buys the B-movie crap "Abraham Lincoln. Vampire Slayer".
You could have gone with Spiderman. Or the Fantastic Four. Even though there was no Daily Bugle or Baxter Building. There was a New York.
Superman fought the villains of Metropolis. And that's why I can't take DC seriously.
