Hey Doulos maybe you and i should take a different approach. (with you being less patronising and me being less bristly) we could co-operate we could start a thread in which i point out various bits and pieces that indicate the jesus myth being a myth and you could counter with why it's not (sort o...

Sometimes the 'prayers' you make when joking reflect what is really going on in your heart. yes and sometimes the patronising BS in your posts reflect what is really going on in yours Doulos. to wit... The Bible never says there are things wrong with having questions, doubts or even anger. If you r...

^Yeah, sure thing Doulos, that's what the link is for. You should look into it if you're interested in what this minister happened across in the book of Mark. You may not agree with him but it's still interesting to consider against the fact that the 12 tribes of Israel are allegedly arranged accor...

to acknowledge what is true. so having acknowledged that in your estimation, historical jesus is historical, do you also assent to this good advice? No. I assent to his divine advice... which is also good ;) If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that y...

As for the evidence, I will listen. I'll be happy to go through it, but I'm a little hampered by that 'real world' stuff at the moment :lol: If you don't mind, I'll open that new discussion when I have a bit more free time on my hands, as I'm sure it'll bring a new, interesting and divergent strand...

So rather than, "God did it," you would suggest, "It just happened" is superior? No, of course not. We need to dig into the details, and try to understand how it happened. I'm NOT claiming that "it just happened". There are reasons, but they are not free-floating. They...

Yes, there is bias in my own views as well, but I do everything I can to keep it from influencing my conclusions. It's a difficult thing to do. Everytime we search for something on Google, we are actually complying with bias, in that Google will turn up anything you search for. If you search for an...

Yet in this discussion, you've put forth a variety of reasons why personal experience of God MUST be false... without actually listening to the evidence. No I haven't Doulos. I haven't put forth a variety of reasons why personal experience of god MUST be false. I've put forth a variety of reasons w...

So you're saying that sources 400 years after an event are more reliable to you than sources written within the lifetime of an event? For the time of Christ we have almost nothing, except - the 27 books collected in the New Testament, written by 9 different authors - Roman sources from 2 of the 4 k...

youkrst wrote:say youre right and there really was a historical jesus Doulos.

so what ?

why should it matter, what in your mind is the significance?

If for no other reason, to acknowledge what is true.