All the historical evidence for Jesus in one room

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldOP
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    10 months ago

    How did this expert determine which model of the events was true vs which was false? What experiments did they run? What primary evidence did they study?

    There are as many versions of historical Jesus as there are people studying the subject. All of them can’t be true, but all of them can be false.

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      10 months ago

      It was Within Reason #35 that I was referencing, if you have time I would highly recommend it.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.worldOP
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        10 months ago

        Hey so I listened to it. I thought the first part was interesting where they repeated all the arguments from authority arguments ad populism and special pleading basic fallacies that most Jesus literalists make. The interesting part was that they seem to be aware of it but don’t actually retract it.

        The second part of the episode they try to build a minimum Jesus and made a mistake about John the Baptist.

        Thanks for recommending it. It was nice knowing that the best argument this side oft he debate has is “because I said so”.