RE: Any Historical Sources That Dispute The Existence Of Jesus?
January 13, 2012 at 10:02 pm
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2012 at 10:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
The "well known and accepted historical facts" of antiquity are a very poor source of factually accurate information in and of themselves. Unless you'd like to concede that Wotan existed. After all, writers knew specific details about him. Such as his musings on marriage, his wives (and the wives of his peers), the rights he afforded his subjects, a very...very...very long "supper" tradition, and that he hung himself on the tree to gain the runes and become the All-Father (fulfilling a prophecy that culminates, or has already culminated in Ragnarok...the end of the world..and subsequent rebirth of the world as a paradise for the faithful). This was all common knowledge, you see. Do you have any evidence to suggest that any of this is untrue?
Yes, invoking miracles does immediately disqualify any given text as a "historical document". Magic is fantasy-land bullshit.
The jesus-as-myth camp is being perfectly reasonable in classifying jesus as such. He's a demi-god that placed curses, performed miracles, and rose from the dead. That's myth, not history. Remove the myth, nothing remains. A human jesus, with a decent command of a crowd, who espoused borrowed doctrines whilst traveling the backwaters of the world is not the jesus of scriptures...and there still isn't any evidence for this jesus. Pretty please, stop referring to scripture to establish scripture as an authority. Try reality for a change.
(Would you like me to repeat these statements with some other cultures "well known and accepted historical facts"?)
Yes, invoking miracles does immediately disqualify any given text as a "historical document". Magic is fantasy-land bullshit.
The jesus-as-myth camp is being perfectly reasonable in classifying jesus as such. He's a demi-god that placed curses, performed miracles, and rose from the dead. That's myth, not history. Remove the myth, nothing remains. A human jesus, with a decent command of a crowd, who espoused borrowed doctrines whilst traveling the backwaters of the world is not the jesus of scriptures...and there still isn't any evidence for this jesus. Pretty please, stop referring to scripture to establish scripture as an authority. Try reality for a change.
(Would you like me to repeat these statements with some other cultures "well known and accepted historical facts"?)
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