• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    There’s a Jesus that got crucified, but no mention about him being able to perform miracles

    Obviously miracles aren’t real. I wasn’t claiming otherwise. We’re talking about whether or not the person Jesus existed, not if magic is real.

    It sounds like we agree

    I don’t think any of it was written till decades after he supposedly died tho…

    Okay but it was written by people who claim they were there and met him personally.

    To borrow your asinine LOTR analogy, it is more like you are claiming Thorinn Oakenshield never existed simply because Bilbo only wrote “There and Back Again” after he got home from memory.

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      If your only requirement is that a man once existed by the name of Jesus and was crucified, then the bar is on the floor. Jesus was not a rare name, and the Romans crucified many, many people. It is not out of the realm of possibility that these two common data points would overlap and give us a crucified Jesus.

      Is there proof that it was THE Jesus though? Do we have corroborating evidence of a man travelling the countryside with his posse, changing the minds and hearts of the masses?

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        4 months ago

        I feel like there’s some room for Occam’s Razor here. Is it more likely that dozens of people got together and agreed to start a cult centred around a fictional person that they were all going to agree existed? Or that the guy actually did exist? Like why would all the people who say they followed him around lie about that but also be on the same page about so many details of him?

        Like, we know the posse existed, so why is it a stretch that the guy they all went on to turn into a religion was really there in the middle of it all?

        To be clear (and I can’t believe I have to say this, but there are some idiots in this thread) I’m not claiming magical miracles are real, just that there was a real dude in the middle of that posse that those followers went on to turn into a religion.

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      4 months ago

      Okay but it was written by people who claim they were there and met him personally.

      Not really, and definitely not the 1/3 you were claiming…

      Like, where are you getting any of this?

      It sounds like what they teach at one of those “bible colleges”

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        4 months ago

        A bunch of the books in the new testament are letters written by Jesus’s followers. We can’t prove whether they really are that, but they all agree that a dude named Jesus existed. If a bunch of people all wrote about a guy they knew, and most of the details match, that guy probably was real.

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          4 months ago

          A bunch of the books in the new testament are claim to be letters written by Jesus’s followers

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            4 months ago

            Yeah I’m not arguing with that. You’re just nitpicking semantics because you have lost this argument. Literally the very next sentence after the one you quoted I qualified that by saying it’s debatable.

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              What?

              So you’re arguing that “anything is possible” and that means you “won” if someone can’t prove something isn’t real?

              You can’t prove I’m not 6 year old baby Jesus on a time traveling Blackberry…

              But anyone that believes that doesn’t have a rationally sound mind.

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                I don’t have a horse in this race, but man, let it drop. The person who’s fighting for ridiculous improbabilities here is you. Nobody you’re arguing with in this thread is even making a claim that Magic Jesus existed. Just that the man named Jesus who is talked about by the early Christians likely existed (which is scholarly consensus, not even a niche claim). They’re specifically not claiming that the fantastical claims made by the early Christians about that man are true.

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                  I don’t have a horse in this race, but man, let it drop

                  You replied to a day old comment telling me to drop it…

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                    shrug it’s a post currently showing up in “all”.

                    Go ahead and get another last word in if you like - you’re arguing with your own ghosts, mostly. Have a good night.