Fascinating post.
Have you seen any scholar posit something similar, or is this totally original?
Any explanation for the name "Simon"?
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- Sat Apr 25, 2015 4:07 am
- Forum: Academic Discussion
- Topic: A Plausible Reading of Mark, Well-Done with a Side of Ram
- Replies: 76
- Views: 59896
- Sun Apr 12, 2015 3:46 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Romans 8 - an astral reading
- Replies: 32
- Views: 42182
Re: Romans 8 - an astral reading
Robert, here is Peter's question: (2) The earliest theological accounts of Jesus Christ are considered to be letters such as Romans, 1 Corinthians, and Hebrews. How much [astral theology] can be found in them, I wonder? Your "astrotheological reading" doesn't actually answer his question a...
- Tue Mar 31, 2015 10:59 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Carrier's numbers and math in OHJ
- Replies: 228
- Views: 135940
Re: Carrier's numbers and math in OHJ
Has anyone else noticed that Carrier could, possibly , be trolling his readers? The Internet-famous Leeroy Jenkins video on Youtube has this figure as one of its most popular quotes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCNJRfSZBU (over 42 million views) [2006] "What do you think, Abdul, can you g...
- Sat Mar 28, 2015 6:51 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Richard Carrier slams Ehrman's latest book
- Replies: 164
- Views: 99799
Re: Richard Carrier slams Ehrman's latest book
There seems to be some confusion between "God" and "God the Father" from one of the parties (not Ehrman, who is clear on how he uses the term). It would be nice to discuss how that impacts the support for mythicism, but I'll leave it with the above on this particular topic, unle...
- Sat Mar 28, 2015 8:37 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Richard Carrier slams Ehrman's latest book
- Replies: 164
- Views: 99799
Re: Richard Carrier slams Ehrman's latest book
There seems to be some confusion between "God" and "God the Father" from one of the parties (not Ehrman, who is clear on how he uses the term). It would be nice to discuss how that impacts the support for mythicism, but I'll leave it with the above on this particular topic, unle...
- Sat Mar 28, 2015 5:14 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Bayesian Probability... in Space! (uhm... History)
- Replies: 24
- Views: 24427
Re: Bayesian Probability... in Space! (uhm... History)
Sometimes people are unintentionally funny... "Mythicism and Freeze-drying" http://criticalrealismandthenewtestament.blogspot.com/2015/03/mythicism-and-freeze-drying.html Carrier's got a bright idea, but that's all. That bright is that there is a 2 in 3 chance that Jesus did not exist. Th...
- Wed Nov 12, 2014 2:52 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fun with Bayes' theorem and the argument from silence
- Replies: 20
- Views: 20603
Re: Fun with Bayes' theorem and the argument from silence
That doesn't make sense. If both theory A and B make the same prediction X. Then finding that X is the case doesn't make either A or B more probable. Right? How does that not make any sense? IN the case of Jesus historicity though, the theory has been found to be malleable, thus it loses its predic...
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 3:44 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: How mythicists are perceived by students and academics
- Replies: 90
- Views: 81011
Re: How mythicists are perceived by students and academics
Counterpoint Grow some balls and address the subject on its own merits. It's amazing how much we allow ourselves to wallow in our own subjectivity and concern ourselves with opinions. Yeah, exactly. I found this part interesting: ...and scholars like McGrath, who are willing to engage the topic, bu...
- Tue Nov 11, 2014 3:19 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Fun with Bayes' theorem and the argument from silence
- Replies: 20
- Views: 20603
Re: Fun with Bayes' theorem and the argument from silence
If all competing theories both make that prediction, then no strong argument is made from absence of evidence. That doesn't make sense. If both theory A and B make the same prediction X. Then finding that X is the case doesn't make either A or B more probable. Right? How does that not make any sense?
- Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:12 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Many Mythicists use logically invalid methods
- Replies: 56
- Views: 36266
Re: Many Mythicists use logically invalid methods
The point should be: Don't trust John T to accurately represent what Carrier says.John T wrote:I could go on and on but you get the point.