The Historical Reliability of the New Testament

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Pyrrho: Sure, I absolutely don't know that my most basic beliefs aren't rubbish. That is why I'm happy to have any of them challenged, and I'd never claim I'm certain about them. I am only working with what I have concluded as most likely given my current information. I don't even have a firm belief that what I'm experiencing is anything other than an induced delusion, or a dream. Anything like that. I just play along like it's "real", whatever that means, because I have no other option.

I watched a video by Richard Carrier (I think) where he describes the style of writing in the gospels. He says it is exactly what you would expect from mythmaking/storytelling. It's not written as a historical record, but uses all sorts of literary devices as you would expect to see in a story or a poem. So to believe they happened to actually be writing the truth while doing it "in the club style" is breaking credulity to breaking point. Even if I had any reason to think they were writing anything true in the first place. I'll try and find the video if anyone is interested.

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Edit: Forget it. Why do I do this to myself. Haha.