08-13-2019, 09:27 AM
(08-13-2019, 01:31 AM)nili Wrote: That's certainly OK. Pawning off Carrier's position as fact strikes me as somewhat less so.
Who's pawning anything off? Pawning off the stories written about Jesus as if they were fact is just foolish. Why should I believe what the gospels have to say about anything? What evidence do we have for believing in a historical Jesus? What sources do we have for anything about his life? The only line of evidence put through is the gospels, and the emergence of Christianity can be predicted without the existence of Jesus based on what we see in other mystery cults of the time.