aa5874

But, surely you don't expect anyone to find a man reasonably similar to Jesus of the NT.

What kind of man would that be? A God/MAN!

Of course the name Jesus can be found.

But of the all the persons called Jesus in Josephus there is none like him, Son of God born of a Virgin and the Holy Ghost.

By the way, it is very amusing and hilarious when people look for a man similar to Jesus in the very books about Jesus.

I would have thought they would have looked in some other book. I mean there is only one God/man Jesus in the Jesus book.

maryhelena

Update re the debate - and things are getting a bit hot....


James McGrath’s reply and my response


By neilgodfrey


http://vridar.wordpress.com/2010/02/...d-my-response/

maryhelena

Update re the debate

James McGrath's blog post.


Friday, February 19, 2010

Is There Evidence For Mythicism?

The ongoing conversation has shown yet another parallel between mythicism and creationism.

http://exploringourmatrix.blogspot.c...mythicism.html

Yellum Notnef

This McGrath fellow appears to be nothing more than another liberal Christian baby still trying to hold on to his saviors unraveling robe.
And just like the rest of them, he spastically lashes out at anything that threatens what's left.

Growing up can be painful.

Chaucer

I take it that you are a conservative Skeptic adult. ;-)

Cheers,

Chaucer

ApostateAbe

Actually, I take McGrath's position to best represent the maturity of an intellectual of religion. The typical progression of such a life is like so:

1. Strong religious faith
2. Doubt and liberalism
3. Strong opposition
4. Reasonable balance

I think many of us are hung-up on the third step. We believe unlikely conclusions for the sake of strong opposition to Christianity. McGrath is not some lightweight with a blog like Neil Godfrey or any of us. He is a professor of religion.

show_no_mercy

And there are no professors of religion in any of your other categories?

ApostateAbe

I didn't imply that.

show_no_mercy

The implication being that someone who's a professor of religion is someone we have no right arguing with. So why would we be wrong opposing a professor of religion in your first category but not your last?

ApostateAbe

It is great to argue with him. You have every right to do so, and I encourage it. And, I love it that he is engaging the mythicists rather than just dismissing them. Fenton Mulley said, "This McGrath fellow appears to be nothing more than another liberal Christian baby still trying to hold on to his saviors unraveling robe. And just like the rest of them, he spastically lashes out at anything that threatens what's left. Growing up can be painful." My rebuttal was to that sentiment. We are the babies, not professors of religion, especially not this one.