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Of those who have read (or watched on YouTube) Richard Carrier's & Robert Prices' research into the mythicism of Jesus paradigm, did you:

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Kohelath 6 Aug 30
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I haven't specifically followed Carrier or Price but have had it as a topic of interest over the years. I do not see the question of whether Jesus was an actual person or not, has any bearing on my lack of beliefs about deities. Even if Jesus was real, the gospels are still fabulist myths that clearly did not happen, not eyewitness accounts, not even known authors, full of internal conflicts of fact claims, events and timelines, etc. Also written long after the alleged events.

I am a mythicist but that has mostly do do with my own assessment of the NT scriptures than that of others. And if I were proven wrong, it would not present any problem for me or change my views (although, obviously, proving me wrong in this regard would be a necessary first step in convincing me that Jesus was god).

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I've watched these and other debates with others like Bart Urhmann often, and read widely. I don't like your options, but I can say that I broadly fall into the mythicist camp on a historical Jesus question, while recognising that this is still a matter or research and investigation and debate. Price said in one debate that one authenticated contemporaneous primary source document or similar referring to the events about this person they call Jesus would settle the matter of historical existence. Just one document. There's not even one. Urhmann has agreed. A supposed huge historical figure, and not one primary source document, or artefact, or historical site. So, the debate continues. And this is just about if an actual person at the centre of the Jesus story existed. As for the Christ myth, well that's just beloney, based on faith, with means supernatural belief, and should be denounced as that.

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I tend to believe that in the overall scheme of things it doesn't matter one way or the other but I do tend to be a mythicist.

gearl Level 8 Aug 31, 2018
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