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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Setting aside your abuse of poor old Occam, how exactly do you know this? The equivalent of only 1 / 10,000 words in the NT is accurate? There are 138,000 words in the entire NT: which are the 14 of them that you find to be historically unobjectionable?
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Don't try to confuse people that I used Occam incorrectly - I used it well enough. If we know 99.9% of a story was made up, do we bother trying to resolve the last .1%? No, we don't. Yet other people are - in fact they have said in this very thread that we know most of the story is fake, but we believe some of it, so some is real. I deny that.
Jesus is claimed to have had super powers and healed many people, included a few instances of more than one person. Pretend we total this to 1,000 total miracles, not even including afterlife provided to millions. So 1 (jesus exists) divided by 1,000 (miracles) equals 1/1000. Was I close? Is that not a reasonable argument? is 99.9% of the story not made up like I suggest?
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I only ask this absurd question, because I think you have quite vividly demonstrated that you really do not know enough about the story of Jesus to even judge the facts from the fiction.
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I don't know enough because I have ruled out 1,000 examples that we know are not true, and are part of the myth. I don't argue the myth, so why try to bring that back in? Why insult me? Do you feel it makes your argument stronger? Does skeptic arguments have to result in the insults?
I have no problem with people being religious, I do have a problem with religious people (or non religious) not questioning what has been given as truth. I also have a problem with people quick to insult those that disagree with them and quick to pretend not to see insults from those they agree with.