(June 19, 2016 at 9:08 am)madog Wrote: Trying to get a consistent story from several witnesses a week after an event is hard enough, never mind a whole period of time, with multiple events decades later .... [1]
If there was an illiterate or plain lazy Jesus that wanted his message communicated down the ages in writing he would have asked his disciples to do so ..... [2]
That they didn't do it for decades after the alleged event/s is very strong evidence that they weren't asked to by a Jesus character ... I doubt they would have been so dismissive of a request from an apparent "Son of God" and just put the writing off for decades ... Apparently they thought this guy was God, and thus I would expect any request to be done with the utmost urgency, not I'll do it mañana, (Spanish for a tomorrow that is sometime in the future) a mañana that apparently was decades in the future [3] .
Think about it, you appear to be an intelligent person ... [4]
1) So "no" on the question of cultural-historical criteria for judgment of likelihood? Would a 1st century Jewish fisherman from Galilee who is inventing a mythological god-man think, "I better write this down"? Maybe he would, maybe he wouldn't. I am just wondering if that factors into your judgment, and so far I don't think it has.
2) I don't think that conclusion follows from the premise.
3) Seguro, estoy de acuerdo. Los evangelios registran que Jesús ordenó a sus apostoles a predicar el evangelio a todas las naciones, pero ellos non registran que Jesús les ordenó a escribir el evangelio.
4) That is kind of you to say, and I am certainly not all that intelligent. I have, however, thought about this a lot.
