show_no_mercy

What do you mean one-shot? Krishna doesn't play second fiddle to Jesus!

gurugeorge

Pah, my Jesus would flatten your Krishna!

(Hehe, it would make a great comic - Armageddon of the Avatars )

But there's a reason why deities of the past like Hercules or Thor fit so well into the superhero mythos - they are pretty much exactly the same as modern-day superheros, a wishfullfillment fantasy of power (and nowadays, perhaps more of a prophecy of our future) - the ability to overcome the limitations that burden us due to natural laws.

dockeen

I thought I made the point in post #4 that some unobtainium based evidence
comes to light that is in line with the gospels in terms of what he said and
some remarkable actions.

One big question that would still remain open would be exactly who and what
this person was - your interpretation of which is presumably a big factor in
how important this is to your world view.

gurugeorge

Yeah but there isn't much room for "interpretation" in the gospels picture - he's literally (somehow) a god-man, part god, part man (although the NT as a whole oscillates between these two aspects, from the more human Mark version to the full-blown god-man of John).

And he's not just doing "remarkable" actions, he's doing miracles (things that couldn't be explained via common sense or science).

I don't see any way out of it: if the evidence was Hume-satisfying cast-unobtanium, then it would be the most amazing, remarkable thing ever, here was proof of the Divine living in flesh, a miracle-working, superhero-like god-man entity finally proven to exist, and you'd have to be a Christian, there would be no wiggle room whatsoever.

And this is quite a reasonable position - it's just that most peoples' standards of evidence weren't terribly high at the time those books were written, and they were presented as just such a kind of cast-unobtanium evidence.

That's what many reasonable people thought the gospels were, for centuries and centuries. That's why they were Christians, because they thought they had that solid evidence.

keepitlow

No, cause he would be the son of evil Yahweh

spin

I'd have to cease trying to find ways to make people stop assuming he did exist without any evidence.


spin

Ferryman to the Dead

Me? Nothing. I would still be a Mythicists and the evidence would have to be substantial. The only thing I think that would convince most people is the so called miracle working if this Jesus was able to perform those then things may change I guess. Hell, Thomas Jefferson re-wrote the NT because he did not believe in the miracles. But in answer to the Op no it would not change my thinking one bit.