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  1. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    Who are you to ask? I don't value your judgment. You just demonstrated that you can't evaluate hearsay because you don't know the meaning of the word. You are not one to decide about evaluating anything. I've read the arguments for and against Q as well as the synoptic problem and that is how I...
  2. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    I read available arguments in English, besides that, I wouldn't trust you to have the good sense to judge in a pie bake competition, let alone to trust your judgment on what the best arguments are for and against Q.
  3. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    Consensus has absolutely zero to do with it. Consensus is for those of the sheep herd mentality.
  4. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    Band wagon ad nauseum.
  5. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    I guess some people can't question what is ingrained into our culture.
  6. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    What's so intelligent about copying Greek, just to show off that you can read Greek?
  7. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    Yes of course. Never mind that the story of Jesus and the twelve disciples wasn't created until after Paul died. The author of Mark couldn't have gotten the idea of the Twelve from reading a certain epistle, or by borrowing from ancient texts.
  8. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    How does one connect a dying and rising god for the sake of our sins, a redeemer of mankind that we read of in the epistles with a kind of counter culture from Galilee we read of in Q that turns it's back on an elitist society, besides the fact that the gospels artificially brought these two...
  9. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    Caesar was a dying and rising god? Jesus Christ was the first and only dying and rising god? How many dying and rising gods were historical besides Jesus Christ?
  10. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    That's absolutely hilarious. Why twelve? Could it be that twelve is symbolic? Literalists, gottaluv'm.
  11. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    That probably has more to do with an historical Jesus meme that is ingrained ever so deeply into our culture that it's not questioned by most people regardless of religion or non religion, ever. It's like apple pie and ice cream, no one asks why apple pie and ice cream, it just is.
  12. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    What of the scholars that are so certain of an historical Jesus, how many are non Jews & Christians? Are they 1%ers?
  13. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    Really? What of the scholars that are so certain of an historical Jesus, how many are non Jews & Christians? Are they 1%ers?
  14. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    No doubt, that may all be very well and true, but what shall we say of the wondrous characters of Hamlet, of Romeo, and Othello?
  15. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    Yes, loosening the standards must go hand in hand with the knowledge that we can only become less certain of what we claim to know, not more certain as some are known to offer.
  16. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    :bonk:
  17. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    They're mostly believing Jews and Christians, they come with the territory.
  18. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    True, the successive authors tended to make "corrections" to suit their own congregations. Hey, logician is back, there was this devilish guy posing as you while you were gone. He did a good job though.
  19. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    Thank you, that leaves much to consider. Your closing line is interesting. It appears that everyone is interpreting text however they want and that it is unreliable. I'm just pointing out a little irony in that statement that you closed with. Any other of the points to consider?
  20. dogsgod

    did jesus exist?

    I understand what you are saying and in principle I agree, but second and 3rd hand evidence of what? I don't know that the author of Mark based his story on any prior narratives about a Jesus. If there was no Jesus that lived when the author of Mark claimed he lived in his fiction, then there is...
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