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I will make a post tomorrow about out topic suggested above what constitutes reasonable doubt, This is my prime writing time I have projects to get back to.

Peter, I think the entire debate is far to political now to be of any value. In many respects the mythicist arguments are just as bad to me as the historicist arguments. What both sides fail to realize is they are repeating the Davidic kingdom debate of the minimalists and maximalists. The mythicis...

You seem to have interpreted me in such a way as to say something kind of horrible, like that the only way to believe in a historical Jesus is to do so because of some kind of pro-Christian bias or something. I haven't said that, and it is a little beside the point. no not what I meant, also not on...

Peter Kirby wrote:

Metacrock wrote:I would have to read it again. It sounds like maybe Bayes. how do you feel about Carrier's thing?

I am not a fan.

me neither. man I went into history to get away from math

The question I would ask about mythicism, as with any position of that sort - say that Mohammed never existed - is how we would falsify the theory. 'Falsifying' or 'falsification' is a weird concept: the issue, to me, at least, is really verifying that a figure never existed - providing a cogent in...

I find the myther thing to be not only insulting but a real diabolical thing. Personally, I find "the myther thing" to be a curiosity. I am every bit as interested in being able to show it to be false , as I am in finding anything that might lend it some kind of support. Of course, like a...

We could just stop discussing the tangent (your tangent , for what it matters) altogether. Like you said, life is short. And, as I said, I'm not interested in doing anything more in this thread than defending what I actually wrote. I'm am here to have serious discussions because I want intellectual...

because you refuse to understand what essence means. That's the term they and they used it for a reason. it means they three persona share the same essence so they are one God. honestly the way you describe your god it seems like a company which holds 3 lesser things which are not co equal to the w...

The rest of the stuff I will not answer life is short I am not wasting any more time on "I said you said." Here is the only the only thing I care to answer: Pete :The rest of what you've said in this thread in response to me is even further removed from the subject ostensibly at hand, whic...

In this thread, I am not interested in doing more than defending what I actually said (and barely interested in that at this point, honestly). I am not interested in defending things that I did not say. It is, further, no fault of mine if someone doesn't disagree with what I said but is still visib...