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John T is truly the anti-mythicist one-man-wrecking-crew, first Carrier(via youtube), now Murdock (via goalpost moving) he sure has demolished them. I'm sure he remains comfortable in his faith. Nuance be damned!

If Carrier only has "not an improbable assumption" and "It would not be unimaginable that God could maintain a cosmic sperm bank" to support his reading of "seed of David", while there are lots of examples of "seed" being used to mean "descendent", ...

John T wrote: To what extremes will some go to kill the truth?

John T

I'm guessing intense youtube research would be one extreme

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Can anyone explain the reasoning that if nobody mentioned that Jesus was made up (and let's assume nothing like that was ever written, not just lost to history), therefore he must not be made up? Especially when all these writings arguing for him not being made up or him not being made up but being ...

you should do an intense youtube research program on Price, not read any of his books, and share your conclusions here where we can draw on your vast insights

well, it is usually called shipping AND handling

You can also get his commentary Letter to the Romans on amazon for $0.01 plus $4 shipping.

By all means guys, keep watching the youtubes and forego reading any actual papers.

outhouse wrote:
This does not give Parvus statement credibility one way or the other.

I find it just as credible as any commentary that assumes any given epistle is pretty much as Paul wrote sans a few obvious text critic variants/omissions.