RE: Where did the Jesus myth come from?
August 25, 2012 at 1:03 am
(This post was last modified: August 25, 2012 at 1:03 am by Minimalist.)
I just lost a lot of respect for Ehrman, here. He claims he never heard of Price and then admits that he has heard of him.... really, Bart?
Of significance is that Ehrman repeats over and over that you have to look at the evidence but then he never says what that evidence is. In one of his books he even fell back on the discredited Testimoniam Flavianum.
Nonetheless, what our new found fundie friend fails to realize is that Ehrman does not accept a miracle-working, back from the dead, jesus. When he talks about a historical jesus he means a person by that name not some fucking "god."
But jesus without the miracles is nothing more than some shlepper who may have gotten himself killed. In any case, it is distressing to hear someone of Ehrman's reputation fall back on the "how do we know Julius Caesar existed" line of shit. Unlike the probably illiterate godboy, Caesar wrote his own manuscripts, minted coins, was spoken of by his friends and enemies in their writings and is commemorated in statues and inscriptions all over the Roman world. Contrast this to some unknown jew from fucking Galilee that no one ever heard about during his own lifetime and it starts to look like Ehrman just wants to keep selling books to idiot xtians.
Of significance is that Ehrman repeats over and over that you have to look at the evidence but then he never says what that evidence is. In one of his books he even fell back on the discredited Testimoniam Flavianum.
Nonetheless, what our new found fundie friend fails to realize is that Ehrman does not accept a miracle-working, back from the dead, jesus. When he talks about a historical jesus he means a person by that name not some fucking "god."
But jesus without the miracles is nothing more than some shlepper who may have gotten himself killed. In any case, it is distressing to hear someone of Ehrman's reputation fall back on the "how do we know Julius Caesar existed" line of shit. Unlike the probably illiterate godboy, Caesar wrote his own manuscripts, minted coins, was spoken of by his friends and enemies in their writings and is commemorated in statues and inscriptions all over the Roman world. Contrast this to some unknown jew from fucking Galilee that no one ever heard about during his own lifetime and it starts to look like Ehrman just wants to keep selling books to idiot xtians.
