[Jesus sits on a rock, speaking]
A new command I give you:
Love one another
[an angry character talks back to Jesus]
What if they’re something bad like gay, trans, brown, or communist though?
[Jesus is facepalming on his rock]
I don’t want to be a messiah anymore
@Buffalox @Semjeza technically there is textual evidence of him coming back from the dead. From multiple authors even.
It’s readily available in every version of the Bible.
(Now if that evidence is worth a rats ass is another question altogether)
No those are just stories, and none of the “books” are reliable historical evidence.
Exactly, I already mentioned that the bible isn’t a valid source. First because it is written by anonymous authors, second because it isn’t contemporary, thirdly because it’s based on hearsay, and finally because crucial details do not line up among them.
The books of the Bible is exactly what could be expected to happen when you don’t have copyright. Someone picks up a story, and changes it to be more to his liking.
@Buffalox this discarding of the Bible as a source always sounds like an agenda in itself. Sure, it’s mythologized, but it’s a corpus of texts written by a multitude of authors corroborating at least some things between them.
I gave the reasons for why the bible is discarded as historical evidence for Jesus.
The earliest book is written 1 generation after the fact, in an area quite some distance from where the events allegedly took place, by anonymous authors, and with no first party references, and the book contradict each other on key events.
How is that an agenda? Using it as a source however is clearly an agenda.
@Buffalox completely discarding multiple sources written by multiple people saying the same thing as evidence because you decide on a whim they don’t count is not a reasonable position.
They might not be good evidence, but they still are evidence.
This always seems to be nothing but a kneejerk reaction to all those Christians claiming the Bible is god-given truth.
“Oh no, let’s disregard everything written in this amazingly preserved textual corpus because I want to hurt those meanies”
They are not saying that independently, they were all members of the same cult, and the stories are clearly inspired by the stories that precede.
When it’s 5 levels removed from what’s considered reliable historical evidence, no it should no longer be considered evidence.
That’s like saying that because there are many Harry Potter books, they are stronger evidence for his existence, by your standard, the existence of Harry Potter must be a definite certainty.
Delusions based on superstition is harmful to both the individual and society as a whole, this is a solidly proven fact.
The book should probably no be completely discarded, I can understand historians using it to understand the thinking and culture of the time.
But to believe the supernatural things described in the Bible is an extreme lack of critical thinking.