RE: What were Jesus and early Christians like?
March 10, 2015 at 7:01 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2015 at 7:07 am by robvalue.)
I'm pretty sure Richard Carrier has come to the conclusion that any letters where Paul mentions Jesus "the man" are forgeries. If I interpreted him right. He believes Paul was referring to an entirely different, celestial Jesus. I need to check that out again to see if I got that straight. It makes a lot more sense to me than the tangled mess we have if we accept everything.
Paul, if he was real, was a nob end. That's not just my opinion, but the opinion of everyone in my basement both dead and alive.
I personally feel no need to go full on mythicist, I'm happy to say that we can stick very few pins into Jesus (ouch!). If they're accurate, and I'm not totally convinced that they are, It's not enough to pin him down to just one person beyond reasonable doubt. In my opinion. In other words, I feel HJ is weak, and I see no reason to believe most of his life story (say 95%+) is anything other than fiction.
It's a subject of some interest to me, and I'll continue to look at all the evidence. It makes fuck all difference to me one way or the other, I'd be happy to concede to anyone in a debate that Jesus did everything in the bible except anything supernatural, makes no odds. It's just a bit of fun.
Paul, if he was real, was a nob end. That's not just my opinion, but the opinion of everyone in my basement both dead and alive.
I personally feel no need to go full on mythicist, I'm happy to say that we can stick very few pins into Jesus (ouch!). If they're accurate, and I'm not totally convinced that they are, It's not enough to pin him down to just one person beyond reasonable doubt. In my opinion. In other words, I feel HJ is weak, and I see no reason to believe most of his life story (say 95%+) is anything other than fiction.
It's a subject of some interest to me, and I'll continue to look at all the evidence. It makes fuck all difference to me one way or the other, I'd be happy to concede to anyone in a debate that Jesus did everything in the bible except anything supernatural, makes no odds. It's just a bit of fun.
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