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steve43 wrote:I bet any Church Father could smoke you on an IQ test.

Which has exactly what to do with my statement?

Blood wrote:All the church fathers are therefore incorrect...

Just a remark to this: As far as I heard, the statements of the church fathers are often not independent. They sometimes even inherited each others' libraries.

Stephan Huller wrote:All the original texts are gone hence real knowledge and real truth are likely forever out of our grasp

Yes, it's a pity. And I don't want to discourage you. It's still much better than yet another "scholarly" reconstruction of the "Real Jesus"™.

JoeWallack wrote:As opposed to famed rationalist Dr. Richard Carrier, WC fields that god sacrificed himself to himself conquering death by dying in order to put an end to his eternal Law.

You are slacking. FIFY.

Craig not only called Carrier a "crank exegesis" but proved it beyond a reasonable doubt. He did not. Craig won the debate, but only by rhetoric, not by argument. He didn't really have anything convincing to say. Calling Carrier "bizarre" is supposed to tell us what exactly? I h...

And what are you suggesting? That the Catholic proposition that a Jewish rabbi named 'Saul' decided to change his name to 'Paulos' after his experience on the road to Damascus? No, I also think that the beginning of Acts is a political piece with many very questionable statements that don't hold up...

Stephan Huller wrote: ... other than I can't produce manuscripts that say that.

While I find your hypothesis attractive, the objection you mention here is exactly the same you field against other hypotheses aired on this board. The hypothesis sounds good - but there seems to be no chance of putting some real meat on it.

Docetism and the HJ : Am I missing something or does this definition allow for an interpretation of Docetism that denies the historicity of Jesus? I like how you ask whether it "allows for". Sure, it "allows for". However, docetism is basically neutral with regard to the HJ ques...

Well yes. He sees himself as Christ reborn, having taken over from him.

I cannot find it, but I think I read on Neil's blog something about a book that claims that Mark was written to be performed. All scenes are static, movement happens between scenes and the "immediately"'s may have been stage instructions.