Interesting stuff. Goes to show that at the end of the day, Jesusology's a word game because the only evidence for early Christianity is words. Not even original words but words copied over...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 9 hours ago
Right.
Whataboutery is interesting, but relevant because?
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 12 hours ago
That's true, but other factors come into play. For example, I'd not heard of Hyndman's book until here. Now that I have, am I going to splash out £23 on a deconversion...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 17 hours ago
"Jesus Versus Christianity" by Alfred Reynolds (1993)
“Docetists [...] maintained that since Christ was fully divine, he could not have been fully...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 17 hours ago
" [...] Because of this, he maintains that, more than any other group in present day academia, biblical historians are under immense pressure to theologize their historical work...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 17 hours ago
Well, "concocted a lie" or "grief induced hallucinations", both have their places. Religious leaders, aka cult leaders, concoct lies all the time. They also believe they see...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 17 hours ago
“Concocted a lie” — I’m so tired of this all too familiar straw man. I don’t know any atheist who claims that the disciples were lying. All you need is a couple of grief induced hallucinations, say...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 17 hours ago
How Habermas' rationalizations in service of his particular vice of choice can be beyond anyone who has had five minutes' experience with humans is beyond me. What Habermas does is not...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 17 hours ago
Christianity was a minor cult for a long time in its early going, and therefore didn't need to be any more factual than any other cult. The Gentiles who adopted Christianity early...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 18 hours ago
Or maybe the gentile author of the gospel just didn’t realize how unlikely this detail was.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 18 hours ago
Because when it comes to Christianity, the biased believing scholars, don't play by the normal rules. “Donald Akenson, Professor of Irish Studies in the department of history at Queen’s...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 18 hours ago
Any political education taught, revolved around the militaries involvement in it. When I did my EPC for promotion, it was called "The Army in the Contemporary World".
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 18 hours ago
For some reason, God always needs money.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 18 hours ago
Paul says more than 500 "brothers" witnessed an appearance of Jesus, but no one knows who they were, what they saw, or where and when they saw it and no one else ever mentions...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 18 hours ago
The core argument of books like Who Moved the Stone?, which I had at first found convincing, is that the apostles would not have concocted a lie about the resurrection and then...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 18 hours ago
And no need for collection plates in churches.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 19 hours ago
I've said something similar about near-death experiences. Some people revived from near death claim to have had out-of-body experiences, and to have seen things from that perspective. If these...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 19 hours ago
...the apostles would not have concocted a lie about the resurrection and then have persisted in asserting what they knew they had lied about when threatened with torture/death by the...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 19 hours ago
The dog ate their homework. Dan Barker posted what he calls his Easter Challenge. * Leave No Stone...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 19 hours ago
A very interesting comment. How people like Gary Habermas can take this hugely uncertain set of circumstantial evidence and turn it into thousands of pages to demonstrate that the resurrection of...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 20 hours ago
There’s nothing ‘certain’ about Jesus having been crucified.
There is nothing "certain" about any of it.
I can accept that he existed (probably) and I...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 20 hours ago
Of course that just opens yet another can of worms: did the apostles -- aside from Paul, a self-appointed apostle -- write anything? If they were fishermen, they were almost certainly illiterate...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 21 hours ago
A found the bit in TGD:- The truths of evolution, along with many other scientific truths, are so engrossingly fascinating and beautiful; how truly tragic to die having missed out on all that!...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 22 hours ago
Well, watching a YouTube video is generally easier than earning the Ph.D. in astrophysics that would be necessary to understand what it's talking about.
Absolutely. And...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 22 hours ago
And most people of faith agree, by gleefully consuming countless benefits of science every day. And by no longer asking God for things once science provides them.
One of the...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 23 hours ago