(September 6, 2017 at 2:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You remove any data which you find inconvenient and gladly swallow anything which tells you what you want to hear.
Moving on.
From Pg. 80 of "Is This Not the Carpenter?" Edited by Thompson and Verenna.
We see what need there is for a historical jesus... and it has fuckall to do with "history."
Quote:The mainreason for holding to the historicity of the figure of Jesus, as his activities
are narrated in the Gospels, resides not primarily in historical evidence but
derives instead from a modern theological necessity. Had Jesus not lived
among mortals and, more importantly, had he not died and been raised
from the dead, the kernel of Christian theology would lose its essence.
I don't understand your comment and what you think I am removing. I only added relevant facts to the matter.
As to the latest copy and paste. I'm unsure about the citation concerning that it is not from historical evidence but out of modern theological necessity. The early Church was based on the history of Jesus from the very beginning. Are they thinking that this is some modern theological invention out of necessity?
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If I am shown my error, I will be the first to throw my books into the fire. - Martin Luther