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... in the real world of Biblical criticism. /// In the real word of Biblical criticism, probable beats both suspicion and possible every time. In the real world is the benefit of the doubt consistently extended to the truthfulness and integrity of the church industry? This is not a real world obse...

If you allow the mythicists, (i.e. atheists) to dismiss all none Biblical references to Jesus as fraud or interpolations without probable cause, the mythicists will always win. The truth matters not, only promoting their ideology, nay, their new world religion. Surely this attitude of regarding any...

If you allow the mythicists, (i.e. atheists) to dismiss all none Biblical references to Jesus as fraud or interpolations without probable cause, the mythicists will always win. Ironically, your view can be summarized as "if you ignore all evidence that mythicists and athiests are not always th...

If you allow the mythicists, (i.e. atheists) to dismiss all none Biblical references to Jesus as fraud or interpolations without probable cause, the mythicists will always win. Ironically, your view can be summarized as "if you ignore all evidence that mythicists and athiests are not always th...

John T wrote: ↑Wed Jul 13, 2022 5:52 pm You mythicists gotta get a new shtick because your TF canard stinks to high heaven.

If that be so, then why have nonmythicists such as Chris Hansen also accepted that the original Josephus had no reference to Jesus?

The Sadducees did not believe in heaven, angels, or the resurrection. Jesus believed in all three. Mark 12:18-27 The passage which you quote only asserts that the Sadducees denied the resurrection, not that they denied angels or Heaven. Denying the resurrection was at 1 point acceptable in Judaism,...

gryan wrote: ↑Fri Jul 08, 2022 2:47 am My reading of the nuances of Paul's accounts suggest to me that Cephas affirmed it as valid and James the Lord's brother rejected it as false.

Fascinating if true - and yet more support for my realization that Paul was not a typical early Christian.

What if Jesus was -- not-- invented....? Described variously though. What basis would have your detailed rejection-front details? I would really appreciate a list of details about gospel figure of Jesus that find no possibility or likelihood of being sourced from the Jewish Scriptures. I note that ...

Were you persuaded? To borrow from Mandy Rice-Davies: Well he would, wouldn't he? With all due respect, I was simply noting his counter-argument because your comment created the impression that Gmirkin had simply ignored Hecataeus of Abdera in laying out his theory. As for whether I found his argum...

Hecataeus of Abdera wrote earlier than Gmirkin's proposed Alexandria composition time of c. 273-270: '....At the end of their laws there is even appended the statement: "These are the words that Moses heard from God and declares unto the Jews." Their lawgiver was careful also to [etc.]' A...