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What I learned in this thread is that Carrier's book will not be properly addressed as there does not exist a single biblical scholar that knows maths, let alone stats.

Early Christianity, likes it's Amazing Colossal Apostle, seems to have been all things to all men

Jesus (Eeshu) is just a preservation of the original (secret) god of Israel. Peregrinus/Polycarp/Ignatius is just trying to take things one step further than Paul. It's a lot like Mani when you think about it. You mean by his self-immolation? What about the letters attributed to him, especially he ...

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Since this is all conjecture and no serious scholar would take this seriously and we know Paul wrote all 13, 10, 7, 4 of the epistles attributed to him with only a few strongly attested text critical interpolations and glosses, does anyone think that the Ignatian epistles were written to supplant th...

I wonder where the Ignatian corpus fits into all of this? A competing(rewrite) of Paul? A man of multiple names Proteus/Peregrinus/Paul/Simon writing books considered scripture late in the 2nd century per Lucian? Is it just a coincidence a lawyer named Tertullus in Acts is Paul's prosecutor? But yea...

With more scholars dating Luke-Acts to somewhere around mid-second century, how long before the inertia is overcome and we start seeing serious re-appraisals of the consensus dating of the other two synoptics?

John T is truly the anti-mythicist one-man-wrecking-crew, first Carrier(via youtube), now Murdock (via goalpost moving) he sure has demolished them. I'm sure he remains comfortable in his faith. Nuance be damned!

If Carrier only has "not an improbable assumption" and "It would not be unimaginable that God could maintain a cosmic sperm bank" to support his reading of "seed of David", while there are lots of examples of "seed" being used to mean "descendent", ...

John T wrote: To what extremes will some go to kill the truth?

John T

I'm guessing intense youtube research would be one extreme