John T wrote:Please be assured that I do not consider you Leucius Charinus a smart-aleck and again I apologize for missing your point. So, if you would please, link the post or cut&paste the pertinent parts so I can review it.
There have been earlier discussions on the following issues ...
Were the Gnostics mythicists? ........................ viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1175
The Historicity of "Post Resurrection" Jesus ..... viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1194
The non canonical Acts are fiction novels featuring the appearance of a fictitious post resurrection Jesus.
The author of the Acts of John for example has the apostle John wandering around after Jesus looking for his footprints on earth but alas, he couldn't find any footprints.
You might like to argue that this is not a clear cut example of an early person claiming that Jesus never existed.
Supposing you hired a detective to check out whether Mr X existed or was a fake, and the detective couldn't find any footprints for Mr X.
You tell me. Would you believe or disbelieve that Mr X (who incidentally was resurrected from the dead) existed?
LC