RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
September 4, 2012 at 8:08 pm
(This post was last modified: September 4, 2012 at 8:10 pm by Tea Earl Grey Hot.)
*sigh* Do you even know what begging the question is? This whole debate over the gentile mission in this thread started because I argued that instances of Jesus being involved with gentiles or saying to the apostles to witness to "all nations" we're not authentic because they're anachronistic. What was the evidence for their anachronicity? The fact that Jesus' followers and apostles act like they never knew Jesus said those things. This essentially means that anything Jesus says or does involving gentiles has to be inauthentic. And now you're using passages from the gospels to prove that Jesus authorized gentile missions when these are the passages precisely in question over authenticity! You're assuming the passages are authentic to prove they're authentic!
Here, learn something: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Here, learn something: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
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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).
