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So as to make myself absolutely clear, Clive, this, does not make me an apologist. |
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Further, he is, after all, claiming that scholarly criticism can now combine with (recent) scientific knowledge so that 'human beings can be subjected to violence and massacred'. I don't really think that scholarly criticism was really the cause of the holocaust. :huh: Quote:
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This is one area where it's important to make the distinction between the mythologising of a real Jesus, and the Mythical Jesus. Quite a lot of Doherty's arguments appear to me to discuss patent mythologising as if it's an indication that Jesus was a myth.
Jesus talking to the Devil does not come under the heading of a useful "flaw" in the narrative to either prove a Myth or prove Historicity, because it's patently fictional! |
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The German medical profession was largely in league with the Nazis and had accepted the theories of rogue anthropologists like Otto von Verschuer and his protegé, Josef Mengele. |
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If someone gets full marks on a hero scale, maybe they are related to superman! I think I tend towards a character in a play, a device to explain theological ideas. Paul had a clearly heavely Christ, at some point someone invented a character to teach the idea. Were plays used to teach before the medieval mystery plays? Parables also are a teaching technique. |
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A N Wilson argues that "verily verily I say unto you" is a verbal tic, an expresion that proves we are discussing a real human Jesus. But is it, or is it a soundbite a clever playwright would use?
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At any rate, it has nothing to do with the Lord's Supper, which, again, is the point under discussion. Regards, Rick Sumner |
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