That's a great inside baseball summary by Carrier, for those who like the inside baseball details. But I have to (at least potentially) question the "Forever" aspect of this...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 5 hours ago
At a school where I was head of the high school division, the 2nd grade teachers took their classes on a field trip. One of the stops was at a pumpkin patch. Then a zoo. And so on. While the group...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 8 hours ago
LOL !...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 9 hours ago
The fictional movie '71, is based around a squaddie being left behind when his comrades pull out. A young British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a terrifying riot...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 9 hours ago
An example from peacetime, made into a movie:
Open Water is a 2003 American survival horror thriller film. The story concerns an American couple who go scuba diving while on vacation,...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 10 hours ago
Then there is the story of the woman who forgot her baby at an airport and the flight had to turn around and go back to get it. I kid you not.
This is actually something...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 10 hours ago
Still, allowing a child to go "missing" for three days is highly, highly, unlikely.
This was in the days before smartphones, so nobody had a "Find my...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 10 hours ago
Of course, all "explanations" are imaginable, just an endless string of possibilities each more extraordinary than the next.
Well, extraordinary claims, require...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 11 hours ago
What are some other examples that may predate gLuke?
A bit of a stretch, King David...maybe. “I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 12 hours ago
Of course, all "explanations" are imaginable, just an endless string of possibilities each more extraordinary than the next.
Think Home Alone on donkeys. While the movie is...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 13 hours ago
The getting accidentally left behind, was a literary device used to get the 12 year old Jesus alone with the wise old sages, so as to impress with his knowledge and wisdom at that young...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 13 hours ago
I think I was comparing too closely with my own old society's customs, where this would have been impossible.
Especially if movement in and out of the community was a...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 14 hours ago
I get what you are saying, but the idea is far from outlandish. Religious folk love to get the freak on. Rick mate....it's as realistic as fuck.
I think I was comparing...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 19 hours ago
A bit longer ago than that.
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
Realistically, if we were in a realistic world here, how likely is it for an ancient tribe to even allow a little boy to talk to people assembled in a temple court in the first place....
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
That's why God has Wm. Lane Craig on retainer.
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
Ehrman writes that Jesus was this "special" messenger that came down and took on the form of a human. This is not much different to what Carrier asserts.
Wow....
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
The "cousins" and "stepsiblings" fudgery, is an ad hoc invention to fix a hole in the plot that didn't exist when gMark's author wrote his tale. There is no...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
Jesus' own fellow villagers surely would not use the Aramaic equivalent of ἀδελφοί for "cousins" when talking to each other.
In fact, if the story were true,...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
"Explanations, explanations"... Just about every sentence, maybe every word, in the "holy" books has to be justified, explained, "clarified", "interpreted"...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
In the NT, the people knew (supposedly) the names of Jesus's siblings, and that would exclude the possibility they were using "brother" and "sister" as members...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
Just this morning I thought of the gospel "brothers" vs. "cousins" thing!
I know something about that in my own old Kabyle culture. Today things have...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
Good stuff, David. A few typos:
that the gospels tell to [the] true story
laying his hands of [on] them
Just this morning I thought of...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
David, I am very flattered.
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 2 days ago