RE: What were Jesus and early Christians like?
March 4, 2015 at 3:51 am
(This post was last modified: March 4, 2015 at 3:57 am by robvalue.)
Right. So the "real jesus" got crucified, and had a brother. Maybe even talked a load of nonsense or got baptised by a particular person.
Does that narrow it down to just one person in history do you think?
I'm interested in how this "historical Jesus" is more of a real person than the "historical Harry Potter" would be, if it was based on a boy called Harry, who had a brother, said a couple of the things Harry said, and went to school.
The thing is, there are so few points on his timeline that there is any hope of pinning to him with any accuracy, that it leaves about 99% of his life up for grabs.
I'm far more impressed with what Tim has brought to us. I was expecting to rip apart all the logical fallacies I've been reading about from Ehrman, but that wasn't the case. It's interesting stuff, but I feel even allowing it all still doesn't pin jesus on one real person.
Does that narrow it down to just one person in history do you think?
I'm interested in how this "historical Jesus" is more of a real person than the "historical Harry Potter" would be, if it was based on a boy called Harry, who had a brother, said a couple of the things Harry said, and went to school.
The thing is, there are so few points on his timeline that there is any hope of pinning to him with any accuracy, that it leaves about 99% of his life up for grabs.
I'm far more impressed with what Tim has brought to us. I was expecting to rip apart all the logical fallacies I've been reading about from Ehrman, but that wasn't the case. It's interesting stuff, but I feel even allowing it all still doesn't pin jesus on one real person.
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