Proving The Resurrection By the Minimal Facts Approach

[pocaracas]

Sorry, Randy.... I never got around to reply to this.

And it wasn't entirely dismissed out of the picture.
It's a possibility that can't be discarded.

Yeah, it can. So, here's your assignment: you assert that Jesus was conflated with the "Teacher of Righteousness". Okay. Prove it.

But please, start another thread for this.

I assert that Jesus MAY have been conflated with the "Teacher of Righteousness".
It is within the realm of possibilities - far more than magic fairy god exists.

You know nothing, Jon Snow!

Is that a light-hearted cultural reference with which I am unfamiliar?

Indeed it is.

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?

Another thread, another day.

Fair enough.

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?

Scholarship. Oh, and the fact that some people were around when Jesus, James, John, Peter and Paul were actually alive...people who wrote stuff down.

Damn, poca...do you think we just happened upon this odd book last week?

There you go with your biased scholarship... it only became less biased within the last few decades and this was too late.

People were around when the tale is supposed to have happened, indeed.... people were writing stuff down... Some of them were those you mentioned, like Paul... as for the others, they are the tale

Last week, or tens of years after the action described... it's the same. Unverifiable claims are written down. Some people believe that those events happened as described... others are skeptical.... others still think it's utter fantasy.
If you wish to present those tales as more than fantasy, then something extra must be brought forward... sadly for you, no such extra exists.