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There's nothing to explain. Adam was created 'according to the likeness.' What's the likeness? It's not that you ask the WRONG questions - you don't ask questions. You use citations to direct you (or us by our misfortune of knowing you) to conclusions you've already reached. for your knowledge, the...

Richard Carrier explains why this strange cover: It’s an original painting by artist Rena Davonne. It’s intended to be psychadelic-conceptual, in keeping with the mystical and hallucinatory origins of the religion , and the mod-style feeling of the title. It evokes an aesthetic and an abstraction; i...

I don't want to get too deeply involved in a discussion with someone that I don't respect. then please you should be more coherent with your own logic: don't dirty my threads when I quote a myth of Jesus/Adam from a book where YHWH is the evil demiurge. I can imagine the corpses of those Gnostics (...

Note that when Bob Price says: This sounds to me like an express repudiation of the Genesis version, asserting not that Christ refused to make the same mistake that Adam had made, but rather that Adam did not make the mistake some said [39] he made. ...he appears to assume implicitly that, according...

Somewhere Carrier wrote publicly to me "hence, agnosticism" just in the context of 33% of probability for historicity. The point is precisely this: I don't bet my house or my life if I had only the 66% of probability of preserving it. The risk of losing it for the 33% of probability is still too mu...

I note another extraordinary "coincidence": 1 Corinthians 2:6-8 On the origin of the world 115,23 Oldest Gospel Passion Story We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age , who are coming to nothing. No, we declare God’s wisd...

Loren Rosson wrote: "So for instance, in his assessment of the gospels, he finds nothing at all which can verify Jesus’ existence, but also nothing which proves mythicism." But Carrier's PRIOR probability -- based on his assessment of the Gospels -- has the Gospels providing a weighting from 66.6% ...

Prof Robert M. Price explains why Jesus was identified with the celestial Adam: Scholars have quite naturally understood the Kenosis Hymn in Philippians 2:6–11 as describing the incarnation of Jesus Christ. James D.G. Dunn, for example, sees in these verses a contrast between Adam’s fatal misstep of...

According to Dr Carrier's calculations, dealing only with the Gospels, is the result consistent with Carrier being "a Jesus agnostic"? yes. I remember that about the Gospels your review of Carrier's book agrees totally with Carrier himself. For example, I have never seen you defend the validity of ...

This contradicts Carrier's assertion about the Gospels being as likely under both. (It also makes no sense in terms of Bayes, since the class being used doesn't even map to MH and MM in the first place.) you are going to misinterpret deliberately the Carrier's distinction between his approach a pri...