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Old 09-16-2014, 03:55 AM   #993
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Yeah I haven't read it yet, it looks dense. But the reviews I've read have had some positives, and Carrier isn't saying his book is the end of discussion but wants it to be a beginning partly by looking at things that have been used to support the idea and seeing if they're valid. I'm interested more in his alternative theory which he says fits all the available evidence.

Ultimately I think this blog post has the right idea.. the entire topic isn't overly useful in terms of broader discussion:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelsw...torical-jesus/
Dan sums that up nicely, not only is it a bad strategy to argue Jesus was not a real person, but ultimately is not really something we could ever be certain of in any real sense.

For me Jesus is likely to have existed, or a person of whom Jesus is based on, either way to me its irrelevant as he says as to the criticism of the faith and dogma.
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