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I can't help but feel there is a connection there with: 1 Cor 15 :51 Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep , but we will all be changed— 52 in an instant, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be c...

That's just assuming that people who disagree with me are hopelessly biased. No. This is not what I'm trying to get at. I would suggest that those who are not aware of their own bias may be hopelessly biased, but some of them would agree with me, and some of them would disagree with me. Everyone is...

By the way, GakuseiDon, did you ever start that YouTube channel you were talking about? No, unfortunately Life keeps happening! But starting my Youtube channel "Myth Adventure" is still high on my list. I've drafted my first episode "The Myth of the Myth of the Star of Bethlehem"...

This has always been the problem: https://www.caseagainstfaith.com/why-historical-apologetics-is-useless.html <snip> The point being, once again, sufficient evidence for one situation is not necessarily sufficient for other situations. Evidence sufficient for historical purposes is not sufficient f...

It's precisely the evaluation of data and arguments that I'm thinking about here. The process of making these evaluations is a subjective one. That's inevitable though, isn't it? How we weigh data is based on what we've learnt and how it fits into a picture that we already have. Both those things c...

I try hard not to be biased. It's everyone else -- at least the ones with a differing opinion -- that needs to reflect on their biases! Like Mythicists (who 'hate God' if they are atheists, or are infidels if they are theists) and like Historicists (who are hopelessly bound with confessional duty if...

Some mythicists have agreed that if there had been a historical Jesus, then he wasn't like the Gospel Jesus. However, at the same time, they see the lack of references of a Gospel Jesus in the earliest Christian letters as evidence against a historical Jesus. Obviously these are contradictory ideas....

I think that the TF analyzes so far have been burdened with the assumption that Josephus, as a pious Jew, would not have used the title Christ in relation to Jesus. Did he use it as a title, though? If he was writing to a Roman audience already familiar with the name "Christ", then perhap...

You really don’t need much. Someone read this story publicly. A listener asked, “Tell us more about this Jesus.” The narrator replied, “I don’t know anything else.” “Then find out more,” the audience replied. This is how it is in this business of creators creating for fame and applause. That's righ...