iskander wrote: ↑Fri Dec 29, 2017 4:34 pm
a "Mythicist" is nothing more than a person who does not believe in the existence of gods . Is there anything more to it?
The only True Mythicist around here is a Jesus Mythicist
Gday Secret, Alas ! The real question for Kapayong is WHY DOESN'T Epiphanius mention mythicists? The short answer is they didn't exist in antiquity You are correct, they did not exist. At least, not in the exoteric histories of the day. Because Epiphanius carefully erased them from profain history, ...
Gday Stuart :) I was also put off by Kapyong's self promotion, to rank himself among the noted scholars. Hence my comment about it belonging in the lounge area. Noted scholar ? Pfffft ! I called myself an excremental dag / hanger-on. Dags refer to the shitty wool that follows a sheep's rear-end. Alt...
The Medicine Chest of Epiphanius. Heresy 61, and 81 of the series. Against Mythicists. I turn now to the most recent, and pernicious heresy of all - Jesus Mythicism, a foul poison which can only find origin at the hoary hand of the Enemy himself. How can any knowledgeable person not laugh out loud a...
Gday robert j :) no-one claimed Paul fabricated his conversion. No-one is an awful lot of people. Fabricated ? I don't want to quibble over semantics, but it seems quite possible that Paul used the LXX to construct his conversion story. Fair point - I should have said no-one here has claimed such a ...
And it is possible that these fabrications reflect a conspiracy by Paul and the author of Acts. (Although why Paul would have fabricated all the nonsense about his conversion is beyond me. It would have been far easier had he simply claimed to have been a trusted apostle.) Ah, the old 'conspiracy t...
Gday Isayre :) In which of Richard Carrier's books is this threads subject best discussed? In more than one way I'm highly repelled by Carrier as to both his person and his personal life choices, so I'm (unfortunately perhaps) biased against him thereby (perhaps in this regard somewhat similarly to ...
Kapyong, please post the next sentence of the Loeb translation? My wager is that it may incorporate a phrase in correspondence with πολυώνυμον ὑπάρχοντα -- in the next sentence. If so, here's your alignment: κἂν μηδέπω μέντοι τυγχάνῃ τις ἀξιόχρεως ὢν υἱὸς θεοῦ προσαγορεύεσθαι, σπουδαζέτω κοσμεῖσθαι...
Gday MrMacSon :) edited: Euhemerisation is to : 'reduce' a god back down to a n supposedly earlier historical person. Fair ? It's just historicising a god into a non-historical person, not quite the same thing. Reifying ? Historicisation ? Historicisationifying ? How about historifying ? Carrier use...