RE: Historian explains why Jesus ''mythers'' aren't taken seriously by most Historians
June 7, 2015 at 6:13 pm
(This post was last modified: June 7, 2015 at 6:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You've heard of the mythicist position from people trying to discredit it so as to avoid it's criticisms entirely (like our "no jesus, no history" OP). The mythicist position doesn't say "there was magic, so there can't be a man", for example. Richard Carrier didn't invent it......the mythicist position -can be- that there was no person, but this doesn't encompass every possibility. All that -every- mythicist position agrees upon is that the character in the text is not an example of the life of an actual man, that it cannot support even -the notion- that there was a real man upon which it was based. That if there -was- a "historical jesus" (whatever that means).....he's not in the NT.
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