to Stephan,
2. you have the imagination and insight of a watermelon.
Thank you for the insult
Imagination is not a substitute for evidence. An investigator cannot let his imagination run wild and any "imagined" theory has to rest on solid evidence. In the domain of the beginning of Christianity, better curb your imagination and rely on the evidence.
You are not the first one who accused me to be unimaginative: Doherty did that.
But when I used long ago an expression like "can be imagined" on FRDB, I had Doherty's mythicists ridiculing me because I allegedly used imagination. You cannot win!
But a big part of my methodology is not to imagine things (which I would love to do, unrestrained) and I stick to that. As far as insight is concerned, I have lot of insight due to my understanding of the beginning of Christianity. Maybe not the same insight than you have!
3. you've spent considerable effort understanding the New Testament some of which is occasionally interesting but in light of (1) and (2) yours cannot be considered a top tier site.
I already explained that a lack of knowledge of Greek is not a huge handicap because of the tools readily available on the internet, except if you want to get fancy. My main goal here in consulting these tools is not to make errors due to misleading translations. I am also very keen about the tense of verbs.
Anyway translations by Greek experts is not an exact science. Very often they come with significantly different renditions from the same source text. And any Greek word comes with many nuances and applications, and sometimes different meanings.
3. you've spent considerable effort understanding the New Testament some of which is occasionally interesting but in light of (1) and (2) yours cannot be considered a top tier site.
Because my position is very different of the ones of other historicists, I deserve my web site & blog to be considered, as an alternative to the "charismatic" Jesus, also presented by most as a teacher.
Top tier? I let my readers decide. Some of them put my website way high.
And among the many "historial Jesus" websites, mine is placed on the top 5 in google.com, often at #2 behind the Wikipedia site.
Cordially, Bernard
