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And if you did have some points, insulting people is not a good way to encourage their acceptance. So what do you know about historical method? What have you read? What points are you trying to make? |
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Bart Ehrman laid out a pretty good set of historical methods in his book, Misquoting Jesus (or via: amazon.co.uk). Would you like me to summarize those methods? EDIT: Sorry, make that Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet (or via: amazon.co.uk), not Misquoting Jesus. |
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The mythicist position is based on information of antiquity found in the NT, Church and Apocryphal writings, not by guessing. More than one author of the Gospels gave information about the origin of Jesus Christ and it was AN ENTITY of the Holy Ghost and a Virgin, the Creator who was raised from the dead and ascended through the clouds. There is not one bit of information in the Gospels that show Jesus was just a man. |
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Mythical ideas are more appealing to me because they are the simpler explanation of the evidence, not because of some bone to pick. |
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Why don't you summarize what you got out of it? |
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As somebody trained as a scientist, I get really shocked at the standards of arguments used by mainstream Biblical scholars. |
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