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All what I have said is that the theoretical model for the deification of a Jewish man is more interesting to me than simply accepting he was Heracles or... No; you didn't say " to me ... " In the other forum anyone who tried to study how a man was made God was always met by a pack of dog...

what is the history of the deification of a Jewish man?

The Ms are good at sneering, but their inventions 1 are less attractive than the ones 2 based on the deification of a Jewish man 2 , which requires the study of history 3 and the evolution of ideas 4 and living conditions and so forth. Ms are tiresome and boring: it is the equivalent of intellectua...

neilgodfrey wrote: ... But my question was how your hypothesis explains all those other details in the story that accompany the couple or so you mention ...

I'm not sure that any hypothesis ever "explains"

Context. I have posted some simple concepts. I suggest you think about them: keep it simple. Celsus is irrelevant. it's about a lack of probability; its essentially about improbability It's as much a question of im probability in light of the likely contrivance and the degree of the contrivance.

stephan happy huller wrote:The lack of evidence only means anything is possible...

No it doesn't.

stephan happy huller wrote:But how [can] probability be calculated with almost a complete lack of evidence? ... How do you calculate 'probability' with so many unknown variables?

Exactly: it's about a lack of probability; its essentially about improbability

Those names simply don't. If that's the case why not just agree that the gospel is contrived, study the contrivance but leave the question of whether or not there was a historical Jesus to the side as it can't be answered? Does the argument emerge as a byproduct of engaging people like James McGrat...

It's as much a question of probability (ie. lack of probability; im probability) in light of the likely contrivance and the degree of the contrivance. The significance is ongoing societal, cultural & individuals' emphasis on "authority" whether such authority is from (or by) a Presiden...

... It's not possible to prove anything about a first-century Jewish guy, Jesus, in Palestine to whom no other qualities are attributed. Once we start assigning enough qualities to make our quarry identifiable, so that inquiry can get off the ground, we are already "in the world of the text&qu...