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[quote=Anonymous]Someone in this forum used to post long, detailed (the details were all made up btw) posts about Jesus being a myth. They said He was some kind of preacher that travelled to India. They had some odd name they called Him. They were extremely sure of that information, and as I am a life-long learner, I decided to try to see what they were posting about.

It was complete garbage. The Jesus “myth” is in contrast to the mainstream scholarly consensus holding that Jesus was a historical figure who lived in 1st-century Roman Judea, and that he was both baptized and crucified.

In modern scholarship, the Christ myth theory is considered a fringe theory, and finds virtually no support from scholars, to the point of being addressed in footnotes or almost completely ignored due to the obvious weaknesses they espouse. (As I quickly and correctly surmised: it’s garbage.)

Common criticisms against the Christ myth theory include: general lack of expertise or relationship to academic institutions and current scholarship; reliance on arguments from silence, lack of evidence, dismissal or distortion of what sources actually state, questionable methodologies, and outdated or superficial comparisons with mythologies.

According to agnostic scholar Bart D. Ehrman, nearly all scholars who study the early Christian period believe that Jesus did exist, and Ehrman observes that mythicist writings are generally of poor quality because they are usually authored by amateurs and non-scholars who have no academic credentials or have never taught at academic institutions. Maurice Casey, an agnostic scholar of New Testament and early Christianity, stated that the belief among professors that Jesus existed is generally completely certain. According to Casey, the view that Jesus did not exist is "the view of extremists", "demonstrably false" and "professional scholars generally regard it as having been settled in serious scholarship long ago".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_myth_theory

So I guess now the hostile to religion crowd had been begrudgingly forced to accept Jesus existed, their next step is to paint Christianity, the Bible, etc, as myth.

For people who don’t believe in God, they sure spend alot of time thinking about God. Sort of counter-intuitive imo.[/quote]

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