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outhouse wrote:

Ulan wrote: And yet it's exactly Paul who gives fuel to mythicist theories, because he's a perfect fit.

Laughable.

Not one mythicist explains Paul with any credibility.

Pauls Judaism is debatable, and thus mythicist love to play in questionable areas, where they cannot be pinned down, in light of not having a working hypothesis to explain the factual evidence we do possess.

This is your typical type of argumentation. It's mere assertion. The only factual snippet you actually use is Paul's Judaism, and that goes neither here or there regarding the question at hand, or at least you fail to mention why you think that would be the case. You don't have any arguments.

outhouse wrote:

Ulan wrote: You just repeat this obvious bullshit of "half a million people" as witnesses.

"Possible" witnesses. They factually wrote him in as being on stage of one of the largest stages ever built by man at that time, with built in required attendance. "revenue collecting"

have you ever studied the actual evidence in detail as to why EP Sanders has given the historicity to the 400,000 Passover attendants he claims were there?

I have.

Half a million is a safe number a hair on the high side, but far from bs

This is also a prime example of your kind of arguing. You never address the actual arguments that people have. Did anyone doubt that 400,000 visitors would attend a Passover in Jerusalem? No. So stop fighting your self-constructed straw man arguments but address the actual objections to Sanders' idea. 400,000 visitors only become witnesses if they actually see a specific act and then give witness to others about it. There's no evidence that this happened. Paul doesn't talk about this, and gMark makes sure to tell us that people were already gone or didn't care. gMark is written as if to explain why nobody ever heard of this. That's your evidence.