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Jesus as a percentage
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Jesus as a percentage
This is a topic I keep randomly ranting about and I thought it was time to collect some hard data. This question is generally for atheists, but non-literalist Christians are welcome to contribute too.

Here is my question: how closely would you estimate that Jesus as written about in the New Testament correlates with:

(a) One single, distinct historical figure

(b) Any number of historical figures rolled up together

Obviously your answer to (b) is going to be equal to our greater than your answer to (a).

My answers are 3%, and 5%. So the character as written contains about 3% accuracy about a single historical figure, and another 2% on top of that from other people who got partly included in the story over time.

One of the reasons I ask is to try and gauge how much mythicists and "historical jesus-ists" actually differ. So feel free to include how you would label yourself. I'd not label myself as either, as I feel there is some validity to both as shown by my percentages. I feel the truth lies somewhere between the two positions, or that in fact, they are pretty much the same position. I'm not looking for justifications, just figures Smile
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Jesus as a percentage - by robvalue - August 30, 2015 at 4:22 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by pocaracas - August 30, 2015 at 4:36 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by Longhorn - August 30, 2015 at 4:48 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by robvalue - August 30, 2015 at 5:33 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by Lucanus - August 30, 2015 at 6:43 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by strawdawg - August 30, 2015 at 5:39 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by ignoramus - August 30, 2015 at 5:42 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by robvalue - August 30, 2015 at 5:52 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by abaris - August 30, 2015 at 5:57 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by robvalue - August 30, 2015 at 6:12 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by abaris - August 30, 2015 at 7:20 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by pocaracas - August 30, 2015 at 6:30 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by robvalue - August 30, 2015 at 6:55 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by Longhorn - August 30, 2015 at 6:39 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by robvalue - August 30, 2015 at 9:32 am
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by Minimalist - August 30, 2015 at 2:08 pm
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by abaris - August 30, 2015 at 2:10 pm
RE: Jesus as a percentage - by Minimalist - August 30, 2015 at 2:11 pm

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