(December 20, 2014 at 2:05 am)Stimbo Wrote:(December 20, 2014 at 1:00 am)Brucer Wrote: Face palming does absolutely nothing to dismiss it as evidence. You can't just hand wave this stuff away. That simply doesn't work.
My facepalm was a reaction to your playing the Josephus card right off the bat - mixed gaming metaphor notwithstanding - especially since we quite recently had a rehash of the exact same routine. As Min suggested, the search facility would have told you this and saved us all a lot of time.
So you think that by me using this forum's search feature it will tell me something I don't already know?
It simply will not. There is nothing here on this forum I have not seen many times.
My contention with Minimalist is his positive claim of Jesus being a complete myth. Any such claim requires evidence for support, and he has provided none. Therefore, that claim is unsupported.
What I see on this forum are nothing more than invalid arguments from silence, unsupported speculation, improbable conclusions, and impoverished attempts of persuasive argumentation.
No one here is actually providing any tangible evidence to support the position that Jesus was a total myth. All you are doing is providing a hypothesis that is very ill supported.
That is simply not good enough.
