HelenaMary, what was the Jesus package packing?maryhelena wrote: ↑Thu Aug 13, 2020 12:27 amExcellent point, GakuseiDon.GakuseiDon wrote: ↑Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:30 pm
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The caveat is that the comparison is not "historical Jesus" vs "mythical Jesus", but "earthly Jesus" vs "celestial Jesus". Carrier, when calculating his odds, seems to assume throughout OHJ that anything indicating an earthly Jesus supports a historical Jesus. But that simply isn't the case. Non-historical people can be claimed to be born to a woman, etc. It means they are earthly, but it doesn't support historicity especially when myths are involved.
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And even then - no need to choose between an ''earthly Jesus'' and a 'celestial Jesus''. Both versions of the Jesus story serve to complete, as it were, the Jesus package. As that old song goes......you can't have one without the other.....
Maybe the packaging, as packaging does, conceals what it contains...