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Rather, he was constantly trying to assert, against other Christian believers and leaders, that his Christianity was the true Christianity. Why did it take me so long to realize this?

How widespread is this understanding of him?

I am not saying that I agree with such dating, but I have some thoughts about Christian origins if such were to be true. So, if Revelation, which Gmirkin, many mythicists, and even some Christians (albeit obliquely!) note is a very primitive Christian text, dates to the time of Hadrian (as argued in...

Also atheists/mythicists use the apparent discrepancy in Mark and John to prove that Jesus did not exist because the calendar in the gospels is wrong. Once again, you conflate atheists and mythicists. Also, can you provide any citation of any mythicist arguing that because Mark and John used the wr...

(2) Why does Philip of Side depict the Nicene Council as a confrontation between the philosophers and the bishops with Arius classed - not with the bishops - but with the philosophers? Maybe this was an anti-Arian polemical strategy which you have taken literally. I mean, people say various crazy a...

Additionally, not all atheists e.g. Dr. Ehrman are mythicists but all mythicists, Richard Carrier et al. are atheists. This is false. There are Christian mythicists, Thomas L. Brodie is still a Catholic priest. I think Freke and Gandy are too. Mythcists don't "preach" anything either. It ...

MrMacSon wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 2:54 pm How do you define "historical Jesus" ?

I am flexible. A person who was crucified upon the earth whom the Earliest Christians regarded as their saviour.

Yes. Even Justin Martyr argues his Jesus Christ existed before the Earth came into existence. Ah, but such a claim is compatible with historical Jesus, mythical Jesus, and docetistic Jesus. After all, Jesus is presented as some type of avatar of the world's creator in most Christian sects, and even...

Neither have I read the book in question; I am merely repeating what I have read about Laurie at the following link: https://vridar.org/whos-who-among-mythicists-and-mythicist-agnostics/ . But as a Buddhist, it baffles me that you would be so baffled that one could be a mythicist and a Christian. A...

But it would be an error to conflate Christian docetism with mythicism. Agreed. Additionally, not all atheists e.g. Dr. Ehrman are mythicists but all mythicists, Richard Carrier et al. are atheists. Mythicists preach; Jesus did not exist, just like Isis or Zeus. With all due respect, you are wrong;...

But it would be an error to conflate Christian docetism with mythicism. Agreed. Additionally, not all atheists e.g. Dr. Ehrman are mythicists but all mythicists, Richard Carrier et al. are atheists. Mythicists preach; Jesus did not exist, just like Isis or Zeus. With all due respect, you are wrong;...