(March 31, 2015 at 4:37 pm)Cephus Wrote: It depends on what you mean by Jesus. Are you talking about a regular guy upon whom the mantle of godhood was posthumously draped? Maybe, although we have absolutely no contemporary eyewitness accounts. Are you talking about some man-god with magical powers? Absolutely not. Unfortunately, this is a game that Christians play all the time, they try to get people to admit that maybe, just maybe, the regular guy might have been real, then they leap to the conclusion that it proves the man-god must have really existed. Nothing could be further from the truth.Yep, and Christians do the same thing with God. They make a plausible argument for a deist God, and then they claim to have proven Yahweh.
We could ask the same question about the inspiration for the Biblical flood story
- flood that covered the whole Earth
- flood like the Black Sea being filled
- once in a lifetime flood in Mesopotamia
- ordinary experience with flooding that many cultures experienced
Where do you draw the line between history and myth? I think that is what Alex K was saying in regards to Jesus?
