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- Wed Dec 18, 2013 4:01 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: My Mother Just Tried to Explain the Jesus Myth Theory to Me
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15731
Re: My Mother Just Tried to Explain the Jesus Myth Theory to
Never underestimate the ideological clout of your regular, ordinary neighborhood village atheist. At a local level an outspoken atheist often functions as a street philosopher, secular rabbi, and critical thinking evangelist rolled into one. Jesus myth theory tends to be a grassroots kind of thing m...
- Wed Dec 18, 2013 1:14 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why Didn't God Create Water?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14382
Re: Why Didn't God Create Water?
Jesus was just some guy, you know? (to misquote Douglas Adams)stephan happy huller wrote:If there wasn't an all powerful Creator who was Jesus?
- Wed Dec 18, 2013 1:02 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: The quest for the historical Christian communities
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15752
Re: The quest for the historical Christian communities
Richard Bauckham and others go so far now as to write that the gospels are based not just on Christian communities but upon eyewitnesses. An example of the campaign being waged in Anglo scholarship for a (stronger) conservative/traditional point of view in the study of the New Testament, largely co...
- Wed Dec 18, 2013 12:56 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why Didn't God Create Water?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 14382
Re: Genesis creation
This was the received Semitic creation story, a version of which is well-known from the Babylonian creation. In this latter version Marduk used the divine wind to hold the watery chaos dragon Tiamat 's mouth open so that he could thrust his sword into it. The Hebrew "deep" is the cognate ...
- Tue Dec 17, 2013 11:03 pm
- Forum: General Religious Discussion
- Topic: For atheist to answer
- Replies: 27
- Views: 33452
Re: For atheist to answer
I am feeling Clintonian: "depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is."
- Tue Dec 17, 2013 8:45 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: my Testimonium article
- Replies: 88
- Views: 101020
much ado about nothing
This thread has officially jumped the shark.
- Tue Dec 17, 2013 4:49 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Detering, etc.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 72274
Re: Detering, etc.
Faith, damned faith, and statistics. Air travel on commercial airliners in most countries has a pretty good record for safety.
- Tue Dec 17, 2013 2:34 am
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Detering, etc.
- Replies: 55
- Views: 72274
Re: Detering, etc.
Maybe this "does too, does not" debate could benefit from considering historical method as a subject as practiced in secular history. Historical Method Full disclosure: I wrote the (substance of this) article. http://www.christianorigins.com/2005/08/introduction-to-historical-method.html M...
- Mon Dec 16, 2013 11:48 pm
- Forum: Jewish Texts and History
- Topic: The Strange Humility Displayed on the Coins of Agrippa II
- Replies: 47
- Views: 64721
Re: The Strange Humility Displayed on the Coins of Agrippa I
Herod Agrippa II: He was friendly (Wikipedia says "intimate") with Josephus, which explains a lot I guess.
- Mon Dec 16, 2013 8:51 pm
- Forum: Christian Texts and History
- Topic: Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
- Replies: 32
- Views: 21180
Re: Why There Is Not And Never Will Be Consensus
Fair enough. Cheers!PhilosopherJay wrote:I actually agree that for the near future there won't be much chance for a consensus. However, I do have hope that a consensus towards historical skepticism will emerge as more rational people study the field and carefully weigh the arguments.