Spartan
Well-Known Member
And if one is allowed to remove parts of the story and call what remains "historical Jesus," how much can be stripped away? How about if there were really only nine apostles, or none at all? Is that still a historical Jesus? What if his parents weren't named Mary and Joseph? What if he wasn't born in Bethlehem? When does it stop being a historical Jesus and just a myth?
The plain fact is that if the magical part isn't true, it doesn't matter if any of what's left actually happened.
Prove the supernatural part isn't true.