(August 24, 2012 at 9:16 pm)Atom Wrote:(June 9, 2012 at 11:06 pm)cratehorus Wrote: Jesus was not a real person, so where did this Jesus myth come from? Was it based on a single other faith? Was it a combination of other faiths? Or was it completely invented out of nothing?Here is Bart Ehrman answering your question. It seems he and virtually all academic historians disagree with the presupposition that Jesus was not a real person.
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Fallacy of appeal to majority, authority, and consensus. I'm not a mythicist (neither am I an historicist; I'm undecided) but there are in fact some (admittedly few) true credentialed scholars who have come to the conclusion that Jesus' existence is at best doubtful. Robert M. Price and Richard Carrier, are probably the best examples from my observations. And when you read the historicist vs. mythicist debates (example: the recent online squabble between Erhman and Carrier) the historicist arguments and their characterization of mythicist position appear rather flakey and fallacious. Who's right? I don't know yet. But this appeal to authority and majority/consensus on this issue I find really annoying.
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"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
