(December 7, 2011 at 7:42 pm)Happy UnBeliever Wrote: Using the gMark to prove jesus ....its the worst thing you could have done...that and using the bible to prove itself another fallacy often attempted and failed by jesus followers..
Strictly speaking, I do not think it is possible to "prove" or "disprove Jesus." Evidence is created from data to offer a thesis which is judge to be true or false on a scale of probablity. New data or arguments may be offered to change the status of a given thesis, so that "proof" or" certainty" is not strictly possible.
Also, it is not accurate to think that the "Bible" is some sort of unitary group of hundreds of diverse writings. It is the inerrantists who hold such a supernatural view of the Bible's unitary composition. Mythicists seem to have unconciously adopted a sort of bible-as-unified position of their opponents. So when I hear about the "Bible" being this or that I reject it as uncritical. No, we are simply dealing with a collection of many and diverse ancient writings. The religious concept of a "canon" is regarded as methodologically irrelevant. We should treat these writings as we would any other ancient composition.
