(July 3, 2012 at 2:39 am)Tempus Wrote: I don't make cases against things if there's no reason to believe them to begin with. There's plenty of good reasons not to accept popular arguments for gods though.
(July 11, 2012 at 1:28 am)FallentoReason Wrote:(July 11, 2012 at 1:09 am)Jeffonthenet Wrote: I don't understand your point. I don't know what historical Jesus studies have to do with this, but Mark's source materials are used by even anti-christian scholars at least in some way to reconstruct a historical Jesus.
Scholars are looking at it the wrong way. They have confined themselves to the historical box when clearly Mark is an allegory for what the Jews went through after the war.
Mark is not the only source, and since you disagree with scholarship you ought to give serious evidence to back up your claim. The letters of Paul, the other synoptics, John, and other sources such as Josephus, Tacitus, Suetonious, and even the gnostic gospel of Thomas are used as sources by historical Jesus scholars. And I still don't see how this is relevant to the point we were discussing.
