(July 9, 2015 at 7:08 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:And it wasn't entirely dismissed out of the picture.(July 9, 2015 at 11:43 am)pocaracas Wrote: There's a report about a "teacher or righteousness", dated to before 50BC, which sort of describes such a person...
Addressed by Tim O'Neill in this forum in old threads.
It's a possibility that can't be discarded.
(July 9, 2015 at 7:08 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:You know nothing, Jon Snow!Quote:Randy, is it not conceivable that such a leader of people could have existed and sparked the christian myth, which then evolved, passing several people, several retellings, until you get Paul?
No, poca. And the reason is really straightforward: we know how the oral tradition of the Early Church was handed down and enscripturated.
We also know how the oral tradition passed down from Muhammad through his family and tribesmen and some 70 years after his death, we got a qur'an. And yet, you don't believe in the qur'an... how come?
(July 9, 2015 at 7:08 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:Quote:As for a brother called James, aren't all members of a sect "brothers" amongst themselves?
Possibly. But that does not mean that Jesus didn't have a real "kinsman" named James.
Indeed, it doesn't.
However, it opens up the possibility space. You can now have more than one James who belonged to this cult and was called a brother. How can you tell which possibility is more likely, or even which was the real one?
