The Good Samaritian

[Bucky Ball]

Bucky seems to be in control here.

However, as I've pointed out in a few threads, the historicity argument is a complete red herring with regards to the existence of God. Even if every relevant ancient source agreed about Jesus on every detail (something not even close to being true), my positions as a metaphysical naturalist and atheist would be just as tenable to me as they are now.

Agree completely. I actually think there is no way to actually sort out the many Jebuses. There were many rising and dying messiahs and miracle workers running around...(Simon of Perea .. born of a virgin, announced by Gabriel, rose after three days ???). In Hebrew culture a "divine" being was not necessarily a "god", and certainly never equivalent to Yahweh, (proof upon request). Yahweh was the 70th son of the Babylonian deity. The fact that this "Drich" person actually thinks the Babble is proof of something, demonstrates he never heard about "circular" arguments, or that "proof by assertion" is worthless.

He cannot define what the word "god" means in coherent terms.