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by The Crow
Sat Apr 11, 2015 1:49 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: soil shows James & Mary ossuaries authentic?
Replies: 5
Views: 8109

Re: soil shows James & Mary ossuaries authentic?

Were any bones ever found in these ossuaries? I cannot remember. Reason I ask is the Jews practiced then what was known as "Secondary Burial" such as the jesus burial where by the body was laid out in a tomb long enough for the flesh to rot off the bones. Then the bones were placed in thes...
by The Crow
Sat Apr 04, 2015 7:35 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?
Replies: 289
Views: 127762

Re: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?

Assuming historicity just makes your life easier. I guess if you believe that yeah I could see where that would make sense. This statement does not depend on whether I believe in historicity or not. It's just stating the obvious: starting from a widespread consensus is easier than presenting a comp...
by The Crow
Sat Apr 04, 2015 3:36 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?
Replies: 289
Views: 127762

Re: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?

toejam wrote:^Are those questions meant for me, and not Ulan??
Either or it does not matter if you want to answer them thats great.
by The Crow
Sat Apr 04, 2015 3:20 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?
Replies: 289
Views: 127762

Re: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?

Do not disagree on the contrary, but I think its importance is over rated. I think this is the main reason why the question regarding the historicity of Jesus is so difficult. For most questions of belief and even early Christian development, it doesn't matter one bit whether Jesus was a historical...
by The Crow
Sat Apr 04, 2015 2:39 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?
Replies: 289
Views: 127762

Re: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?

the question of Christian Origins is a fascinating and important historical question. In what way? Christianity has been the dominant religion in the West for almost 2,000yrs. If there was ever such a thing as an important historical question, I think the question of its origin qualifies! If you di...
by The Crow
Sat Apr 04, 2015 12:51 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?
Replies: 289
Views: 127762

Re: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?

Some Egyptologists spend their whole professional lives studying the beliefs and mythology of Ancient Egypt despite the fact that no one today actually believes that there was a historical Horus, a historical Isis and Osiris etc. Are they just wasting their time too on an intellectual abstraction? ...
by The Crow
Fri Apr 03, 2015 1:54 pm
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?
Replies: 289
Views: 127762

Re: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?

outhouse wrote:
The Crow wrote:Up to you. Sooner or later all heads are going to bleed and crack open.
It only happens here, and a few other select forums.

Having debated with most here for 4-5 years, I wear a helmet :mrgreen:
Having debated with most here for 4-5 years, I wear a helmet
Jolly good idea. :lol:
by The Crow
Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:29 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?
Replies: 289
Views: 127762

Re: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?

Neither side has a smoking gun because if they did they would use it right? Smoking gun is not needed though. Jesus has historicity. Mythicist have no credible position at this time. I could easily claim the current hypothesis for historicity is the smoking gun. A martyred Aramaic Galilean man at P...
by The Crow
Fri Apr 03, 2015 11:04 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?
Replies: 289
Views: 127762

Re: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?

. Frankly the entire jesus lived or not debate is a farce. . So you agree he was historical and the argument is inane? OR You have developed a replacement hypothesis that explains how they created a mythical character that explains the evidence we have? So you agree he was historical and the argume...
by The Crow
Fri Apr 03, 2015 5:39 am
Forum: Christian Texts and History
Topic: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?
Replies: 289
Views: 127762

Re: Is 'Serious Scholarship' Biased in Favor of Historicity?

But I think I meant it more as a psychological observation, sort of like why you had to be a property owner to vote in Athens and the U.S. I think Biblical studies does this unconsciously. But just as excluding renters (not to mention minorities, women etc) reshaped the electorate in favor of the v...