Jim Little

Logic. Critical ThinkInk. Fallacy Foe.

[Jim Little @JimLittle1]

@Acinder_o7 @nordicravnfrost @sola_chad The supposed Roman accounts, such as in the writings of JosephusTacitus and Pliny the Younger, are all well-argued to be later Christian forgery-interpolations

[Jim Little @JimLittle1]

@Acinder_o7 @nordicravnfrost @sola_chad 1. Claims of eyewitnesses are falsehoods. There's no evidence NT Jesus has ever been anything other than a literary figurea storybook character, albeit in a lot of narratives, including narratives based on or about earlier narratives, the result of cumulative elaboration.
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[Jim Little @JimLittle1]

@NoPurpleFood @TheExBeliever I don't. I can't. As, as you said, I have no idea... which raises the question: why are you so upset. And nasty. Now fuck off.

[Jim Little @JimLittle1]

@NoPurpleFood @TheExBeliever Mentions are not evidence.
Moreover, the supposed mentions in Josephus, Tacitus & Pliny the Younger are all well-argued to be later Christian forgery-interpolations.
The mentions of Pilate (& Caiaphas, Herod, etc) are a literary trope called synchrony used to infer historicity.

[Jim Little @JimLittle1]

@protedze @stoiccpath @AjeboDanny There's no evidence NT Jesus has ever been anything other than a literary figure, a storybook character, albeit in a lot of narratives, including narratives based on or about earlier narratives, the result of cumulative elaboration

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@Lana_realfans @stoiccpath @AjeboDanny There's no evidence NT Jesus has ever been anything other than a literary figure, a storybook character, albeit in a lot of narratives, including narratives based on or about earlier narratives, the result of cumulative elaboration

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@BFordress925 @TheExBeliever Actual historians have little if anything to say on the issue. You're mostly appealing to Christian biblical scholars and theologians whose bias is blinding (& a few hangers-on like Bart Erhman & the late Maurice Casey)

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@NoPurpleFood @TheExBeliever There's no evidence NT Jesus has ever been anything other than a literary figure, a storybook character, albeit in a lot of narratives, including narratives based on or about earlier narratives, the result of cumulative elaboration, ie. the genre is novelistic, not documentation

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@KahuM90934 @TheExBeliever Breathing doesn't work by grace.
Besides, Jesus wasn't the Creator.

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@BrimstonedLLC @TheExBeliever It's not a guy who amassed a following, it's the story of a guy which amassed a following. So the following is of a literary figure...

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@RealDavidMaris @LisaLiel @abi4560 No. What you're doing is the fallacy of composition. And you're seeking to appeal to authority. When the reality is, as I said above,

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@preznextdoor @rbrtvrbrtv @___TheGOOdWitch Your word salad X posts have little or even no meaning

[Jim Little @JimLittle1]

@RealDavidMaris @LisaLiel @abi4560 Richard Carrier has PhD in classical history (though I don't rate him as a good historian of early Christianity).
A few biblical scholars who doubt but didn't/don't outright argue the issue are Thomas L Thompson & rhe late Phillip Davies, among others.

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@RealDavidMaris @LisaLiel @abi4560 A few scholars...
And brain-fart Bart is not a historian
(neither are most if not all scholars who tout a 'historical Jesus' - they're mostly Christian biblical scholars and theologians)

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@AHjerdin @__SatyamSharma The supposed accounts in JosephusTacitus and Pliny the Younger are all well-argued to be later Christian forgery-interpolations.
Lucian and Mara bar Serapion are too vague to count.

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@RealDavidMaris @LisaLiel @abi4560 Tim O'Neill is selective & dishonest.
There's no evidence NT Jesus has ever been anything other than a literary figurea storybook character, albeit in a lot of narratives, including narratives based on or about earlier narratives, the result of cumulative elaboration.

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@preznextdoor @rbrtvrbrtv @___TheGOOdWitch All protected by (and including) the religious elite

[Jim Little @JimLittle1]

@krussi34 @___TheGOOdWitch There's no suitable evidence that NT Jesus has ever been anything other than a literary figure, a storybook character, albeit in a lot of narratives, including narratives based on or about earlier narrativesthe result of cumulative elaboration

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@AHjerdin @__SatyamSharma about earlier narrativesthe result of cumulative elaboration (as those supposed accounts in Josephus and Tacitus are)

[Jim Little @JimLittle1]

@AHjerdin @__SatyamSharma The supposed accounts in Josephus and Tacitus are well-argued to be later Christian forgery-interpolations.
There's no evidence NT Jesus has ever been anything other than a literary figure, a storybook character, albeit in a lot of narratives, including narratives based on or
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