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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
But yet no record of it, was the Jewish court just words spoken...I think not.
You use Paul as the source as the Jesus writings 3 decades after his death but yet it was Paul who gives the list of 500 people to whom the risen Jesus appeared.
I get it, this is your work but like most things involving religion it's nothing but a massive pile of BS full of hypocrisy.
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I think you may be misunderstanding the argument textcritic is making. No one is claiming to be definitively right about the existence of Jesus but that his existence is a more plausible theory in explaining the resultant religion and texts than is his invention out of thin air. Indeed as pivotal as the Jesus story is to the rise of Christianity and the direction of western civilization it would be a big deal if a historical Jesus was mere fairy tale but thats not the hypothesis that is most convincing to most scholars. It slightly undermines ones argument when it is agenda driven. IE religion is foolish and therefore anything contained within it is also and contains no kernel of truth.