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08-01-2007, 04:27 AM | #41 | |
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unless you want to throw out every document about everything you yourself have not witnessed, then you must accept some things. I choose to accept independant, internally consistant eyewitness accounts, of things that, at least, could have happened in the real world. If you want to accept the bible's accounts of miracles and other magical bullshit go right ahead. |
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Read that Tacitus one again. And who contradicts Tacitus? There's not a single person in antiquity who thought that Christ didn't exist. The closest thing to that thought that he was a phantom on earth.
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Furthermore, consistency is only one variable. If two competing explanations were both consistent with what we know to be true, then your answer, if left on its own, is virtually useless. Quote:
i am not asking what would make something unreliable but rather what would make it reliable. :huh: Quote:
Again: NON-CHRISTIAN. |
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That he found the idea of singing a "hymn to Christ, as to a god" surprising suggests that what he knew of "Christ" made him expect something other than a divine redeemer figure, which is what the title signifies in the NT documents. DCH |
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You asked us what the criteria were. Now you seem to have a personal list of your own that you are working from. If you already have a list, then why not present it? Quote:
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You have essentially defined all Christian scriptures preemptively as one thing, and then concluded (naturally) that the Jesus narrative has only one source. This is rather sloppy, to say the least. |
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Explain to us in detail how the gospel texts differ in substance from any other example of Graeco-Roman biography? |
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what's he comparing it to for consistency, eh? tut-tut- historic evidence that only has any worth if legitimatized. Quote:
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one of the things i set out to do is find out whether the persons who act as historians and critics in this forum have much understanding about the things they speak of. I suspected they did not; so, far my suspicion is left unscathed. if you would like me to teach you, then ask. Quote:
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