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So many theories, so little time.

Personally, I think that seems fairly uncontroversial.

Added to which carrier gets a higher score for Jesus than others do. Individual characteristics are arguably shoehorned to fit. It is also apparently not difficult to give Jesus a low score, as low as 9, as McGrath says he does. One may argue this is too low, but the point is that it is a matter of ...

I'd like to add something to 'losing favour with their subjects/followers' supposedly being rare for real people (even well-documented ones in recent centuries). It isn't even remotely rare. I can think of six from recent 'Arab Spring' uprisings alone (leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria ...

Diogenes the Cynic wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2018 11:11 pm How did you know I was writing a book?

I'm a black belt omniscient.

But I'm not after references to other communities ie. recipients of letters. I'd expect accounts of communities the letters come from. We are all familiar with the opinion, 'If Jesus existed, I'd expect more mention of him', or the general, 'if (something) was the case, I'd expect more mention of x...

I'm not aware of many church fathers recounting their local communities; of recounting positive community engagement with the texts or the theology by others. All we seem to get is negative accounts; say, of persecutions. Surely there are also many agreeable letters to and from communities, in whic...

Giuseppe wrote: ↑Thu Jan 11, 2018 9:40 am If someone is killed by demons, then probably he is killed where the demons fly: in the air.

What if they hovered just slightly above the ground?

Your book is not going to sell as many copies as mine will.

I have a theory. On his first visit to the big smoke, Jesus went to a prossie for a 'massage' and the gospel writers covered up this embarrassing incident by making it all symbolic.