The Skeptics Guide #804 - Dec 05 2020 (Ad Free)
Added 2020-12-05 16:05:06 +0000 UTCCOVID-19 Update; News Items: The Home of Jesus, Ancient Seeds, Treatment for Progeria, Protein Folding Solved, ISS Longevity; Who's That Noisy; Your Questions and E-mails: Principia Follow Up; Name That Logical Fallacy: Slippery Slope; Science or Fiction
Comments
Burden of proof lies with the claimants and I’ve yet to see definitive proof he existed. Not sure of the odds.
Cory Davis
2020-12-08 04:17:24 +0000 UTCBTW, I grew up in a Pentecostal household much as Dan Barker did (Assembly of God would describe it best), and totally believed the whole thing. You will believe ANYTHING when you are a small child. I was told that God had a wonderful plan for my life, and I couldn't wait to find out what it was. The problem was God never told me what it was. Before I was an adult I figured I would find out then. After I was an adult, OK what's going on here? The Bible told me I would get an answer. I never got one. The Bible was no help. I remember asking God "There are 50 states - Which one? Can you at least tell me that? Hello? Hello? Hello? I then decided to look into the history of the Christian church., because I wanted to know how God talked to people. It went on from there.
Ted Apelt
2020-12-06 21:48:09 +0000 UTCTry Richard Carrier, look him up on YouTube. He makes way more sense than Bart Ehrman.
Ted Apelt
2020-12-06 21:33:32 +0000 UTCI've looked into this as well. I read Bart Ehrman's "Did Jesus Exist?" (a massive load of shit) and other things as well. The jesus myths struck me almost more as fan fiction than reality. Without evidence to the contrary, it will be impossible to prove jesus existed. Jesus was a common name derived from Joshua, one of Judaism's great heroes. Itinerant preachers appears to have been common and has striking MO similarities to the Greek traditions of philosophy. I wonder if timing of the resurrection was derived from the Greeks as well, since they believed that the soul hung around for three days before moving on to the afterlife. For me, following the evidence means he did not exist, so until real evidence emerges, possibility is not probability nor certainty.
Asymetra
2020-12-06 19:47:04 +0000 UTCI did an extensive analysis of the Jesus story and came to the inescapable conclusion that not only was it fiction, but it was intended as fiction, and understood to be fiction. Too many wrong things, such as the Sanhedrin meeting on Passover Eve or the Romans crucifying someone just because a group of subjugated people wanted them to. I think he really was a first century John Galt (from Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"), an ideal to aspire to, but not a real person.
Ted Apelt
2020-12-05 19:02:08 +0000 UTC
