RE: The Historical Christ
August 5, 2009 at 7:17 am
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2009 at 7:24 am by Anto Kennedy.)
Quote:BTW, "what" historical evidence is there for Mohammad? Much like your jesus...he seems to be an invention to personalize a cult.
Oh shit I can't believe you actually said that. I had an inkling you would, but I gave you the benefit of the doubt. I can't talk to you, you're too irrational.
Quote:Julius Caesar 7/13/100 BC to 3/15/44 BC.
You do know that on that same wikipedia page there are two reference numbers over the dates of birth and death?
Quote:There is some dispute over the date of Caesar's birth. The day is sometimes stated to be 12 July when his feast-day was celebrated after deification, but this was because his true birthday clashed with the Ludi Apollinares. Some scholars, based on the dates he held certain magistracies, have made a case for 101 or 102 BC as the year of his birth, but scholarly consensus favours 100 BC. Goldsworthy, 30
Oh look, we don't know Caesars birthday.
Quote:After Caesar's death the leap years were not inserted according to his intent and there is uncertainty about when leap years were observed between 45 BC and AD 4 inclusive; the dates in this article between 45 BC and AD 4 inclusive are those observed in Rome and there is an uncertainty of about a day as to where those dates would be on the proleptic Julian calendar. See Blackburn, B and Holford-Strevens, L. (1999 corrected 2003). The Oxford Companion to the Year. Oxford University Press. p. 671. ISBN 978-0192142313
Nor his death.
So what we do is make a an estimate (that doesn't mean Caesar didn't exist)
Quote:Your sources do not just "disagree" my friend. They tell two mutually exclusive stories.
A mutually exclusive story would be something like this.
Story A - A woman has a sandwhich, then goes to work where she gets sacked by her boss.
Story B - Some fat guy from Bangladesh steps in dog shit.
The Gospels on the other hand all describe a man called Jesus, who was a Galilean, who started a ministry aged 30, died aged 33, rose from the grave and sent his 11 disciples out to spread the Good News.
How are those accounts "mutually exclusive"?
Quote:Any of it, unless it can be confirmed by other sources
The writings of Joesephus and anti-christian commentators don't count?