RE: What do invented saints tell us about Christianity?
November 10, 2019 at 9:52 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2019 at 9:54 pm by GrandizerII.)
(November 10, 2019 at 9:16 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Some of his points are valid, many are not, especially when he quotes from the bible as evidence for his opinions.
In some cases, the Bible does count as evidence for one's position. It depends on the question you're trying to answer. If you want to know what the early Christians believed about this and that, the New Testament could count as good evidence.
But I suspect what you're referring to is Tim supposedly using the Bible as evidence against mythicism, and if that's your charge, then I think this is a little misleading since Tim isn't using the Bible authoritatively as evidence perse against such views, but rather he is arguing that an honest analysis of the texts in the Bible (using proper and reasonable criteria) may reveal indicators that something this and that may have happened while other this and that probably did not. He uses the Bible as evidence in such a manner in the same way he has used the Bible as evidence to argue that the Matthew and Luke nativity stories are clearly not based on historical facts.
