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In what sense is the first more or less "complex" than the second? Familiarity perhaps? Cognitive dissonance may be a real sociopsychological phenomena, but it's hardly a simple one. I doubt that it is so well understood that a historian can be justified in declaring it to be the most lik...

Put aside the irony of resting the case for his own position upon the weak and notoriously subjective "Occam's Razor." Is there any other academic field in which "parsimony" is so frequently invoked? Might that happen because the sources are so problematic that the evidence simp...

I don't understand why Myers considers historicism inherently more plausible than mythicism. When considering the origins of any religion, I think that a good default hypothesis would be that some half-a-whack-job convinced a bunch of gullible followers that the fantastic stories he invented were ac...

Does anyone else wonder about these "equitable" citizens who got all worked up over the injustice done to James? Ananus was not someone to be trifled with. Who would really have challenged him for the sake of the peasant brother of a failed messiah? That has always made me lean toward inte...

The Burden of Proof is on those asserting His historicity* : the adage, 'they who aver must prove,' remains the key fundamental * I don't think anyone has met the burden of proof satisfactorily All people who make a claim carry the burden of proof, regardless. That is my position. My position is th...

I'd suggest what he introduced was the atonement idea. As per the Odes of Solomon the idea the saviour is a saviour who saves wasn't new, but the legalistic atonement was. [This w]ould suggest Paul also downplayed the earthly host body for the Christ (his deeds, words, etc) so much so it appears to...