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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://ehrmanblog.org/fuller-reply-to-richard-carrier/

Bart don’t like Richard!

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Richard Carrier is one of the new breed of mythicists.  He is trained in ancient history and classics, with a PhD from Columbia University – an impressive credential.  In my book Did Jesus Exist I speak of him as a smart scholar with bona fide credentials.   I do, of course, heartily disagree with him on issues relating to the historical Jesus, but I have tried to take his views seriously and to give him the respect he deserves.
      Carrier, as many of you know, has written a scathing review of Did Jesus Exist on his Freethought Blog.   He indicates that my book is “full of errors,” that it “misinforms more than it informs” that it provides “false information” that it is “worse than bad” and that “it officially sucks.”   The attacks are sustained throughout his lengthy post, and they often become personal.  He indicates that “Ehrman doesn’t actually know what he is talking about,” he claims that I speak with “absurd” hyperbole, that my argument “makes [me] look irresponsible,” that I am guilty of “sloppy work,” that I “misrepresent” my opponents and “misinform the public,” that what I write is “crap,” that I am guilty of “arrogantly dogmatic and irresponsible thinking,” that I am “incompetent,” make “hack” mistakes, and do not “act like a real scholar.

Why?

Bart Ehrman Just Can’t Do Truth or Logic
BY RICHARD CARRIER ON APRIL 25, 201657 COMMENTS
Bart Ehrman was again asked what evidence there is that Jesus existed this February 18, 2016, at Fresno City College. See the video here (he begins his answer at timestamp 23:18). First he says this:

I don’t think there is any doubt that Jesus existed. There are a couple of scholars who’ve argued he didn’t exist. There are a lot of voices out there saying that he didn’t exist. But they’re not by scholars who are actually trained in any historical disciplines. There are voices on the internet. But there are voices on the internet for all sorts of things. Scholars who study this stuff really, there isn’t any, it’s not a question that’s debated among my colleagues. It is not debated. Because the evidence is so overwhelming.

https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/10134

It’s like shooting atheist fish in barrel.

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Did you read the link you posted?

[i]Carrier: You can read all his arguments in DJE. Compare them with the arguments in OHJ. This is the best they’ve got. And apparently Ehrman agrees that’s enough for you to judge for yourself. So I recommend you compare them. And state what you think. Anyway, he goes on…

Ehrmann quote: The people who are called mythicists argue that Jesus was invented, that he’s a myth, that was made up, that there never was an actual man Jesus.

Carrier: Not quite. We argue that the [b]Gospel [/b]Jesus was made up. A conclusion even Bart Ehrman largely agrees with.
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The Gospel Jesus.  Supernatural walked-on-water raised-the-dead Jesus.  Who did all this stuff with no contemporaneous accounts despite many "miracles".  That's the one that didn't exist.[/quote]

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