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dog-on · 01-15-2010, 03:47 AM

Following a link in the Toto's thread regarding Hoffman I found this page.

http://rjosephhoffmann.wordpress.com...torical-jesus/

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Thirty Theses: Plausible Propositions for the Existence of a Historical Jesus*

1. The primary data for the beginning of Christianity are the documents of the New Testament.

2. Secondary data including apocryphal and Gnostic sources and testimonia are primarily valuable for the reconstruction of the growth of the Christian movement

3. The gospels are about the life of a man called Jesus of Nazareth

4. Their probable genesis before the end of the first century is strong support for the basic historicity of the events they portray.

Is this the, "well, we might as well believe he existed because we have no good reason to believe that he didn't", historical Jesus argument?

Any comments?

Toto · 01-15-2010, 07:00 AM

That essay was the subject of this thread

dog-on · 01-15-2010, 07:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Toto

That essay was the subject of this thread

Ah, didn't notice the date of the blog post.

Thanks for the link.

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