ApostateAbe

Maybe I won't have the last word. My methodology borrows from the two most essential criteria of the "Argument to the Best Explanation" (explanatory power and plausibility), which most certainly is an accepted methodology among historians. But, it is not necessary to use that methodology. Just come up with a better methodology of your own. I know that you have a methodology for negative conclusions, but I think you need a methodology of positive conclusions to accompany it, or it is to be expected that you don't have any positive conclusions concerning the historical Jesus. If your methodology of positive conclusions is to depend purely on claims of first-hand reliable written attestations, then I think you need to justify it for a period of history when such a thing is hardly ever available. I think it is inappropriate to strike down all other methodologies on the grounds that there are cases where any single given criteria of those methodologies can not be reliably applied, because we need to make decisions having in mind the whole of the evidence and all criteria.

aa5874

Well, your claim is really absurd.

The Entire Canon was supposed to have been written by contemporary authors.

When did the authors of the Gospels live, supposed disciples and followers of Jesus?

When did the author of the Pauline Epistles live, a supposed contemporary of Jesus and the apostles?

When did Luke the supposed author of Acts and gLuke live, a supposed follower of Paul?

When did the author of the Epistle called James live, a supposed relative of Jesus?

When did the author of the Epistle called Peter live, a supposed apostle of Jesus?

When did the author of the Epistle called Jude live, a supposed relative of Jesus?

When did the author of the "Revelation" live, a supposed apostle of Jesus?



Remarkably, there should have been at least 8 apologetic Contemporary authors for the Jesus story far in excess of YOUR average.

However, it turns out that the supposed Apologetic Contemporary authors, people who should have known of Jesus, claimed Jesus was either FATHERED by a Ghost, was God the Creator, walked on water, transfigured, resurrected and ascended in a cloud.

The Jesus story is probably the biggest lie or mis-representation known to mankind if Jesus was human. And what is even more disturbing is that the very supposed contemporary authors were FAKES themselves.

The Bouazizi story cannot be compared to TOTAL FICTION, both the Jesus stories and its "contemporary" authors.