(October 17, 2013 at 4:19 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: And yet there were Christians who lived at the time of John who didn't think Jesus was a flesh-and-blood person. Their existence is detailed in the Bible, in passages penned by John. These Christians, by the way, were called "Docetic Christians", those who thought Jesus was an apparition. You'd think the historical reality of Jesus would have been more obvious than when exactly Herod died. Did Jesus not have nieces and nephews who could have testified he was a real person born to a mother in ways apparitions don't need to be? And if early Christians could be confused with that, what makes you so certain that they were all so well educated in exact historical dates in ways that exceed even modern Republican standards?What do theological positions have to do with knowledge of history?
Quote:How many historical texts talk about zombies?I don't know - how many?
