Proteus wrote:
Harry has written post after post, literally plastering the forum with them recently, stating he can "prove" that Jesus existed.

Would you care to substantiate that via direct quote from any of my posts?  ("Literally plastering the forum"?)
Sigh.  What a total waste of time!
The Wikipedia article on Paul (not recommended) includes a quotation from 1 Clement, dated ca. 90 C.E., suggesting that Clement of Rome was familiar with Acts. . . .His sole surviving known authentic work, 1 Clement, at 47:1ff, clearly references Paul's 1 Corinthians; placing that as a first-century work. (post #15 this thread)
Totally false.   The earliest manuscript for 1 Clement is  1000 CE, and Clement himself supposedly lived in the second century.  This is proof of nothing loudly proclaimed as "something."
The point in referencing Marcion is not to endorse any of his beliefs, but rather note the fact of his having referenced, prior to the third century, Paul's letters. (post #19 of this thread)
Marcion never mentioned Jesus (Isu ring a bell?) never mentions a human Isu / Jesus at all but rather a "ghost" and his theology is totally different from Christianity -- and yet again lived too late to be used as proof of a historical Jesus.

Harry mentions Paul's letters (link) -- and yet again Paul never met a "real" Jesus.  No proof here.

Harry brings up the Jesus Seminar as if this were some sort of proof of a historical Jesus.  Witness post #32 of this thread.  The Jesus Seminar is just a group of Christians giving their own opinions and nothing more -- proof, yet again, of nothing.

The  "Robin Hood" thread numbers 6 pages by my browser's reckoning.   It is pretty much the same argument as this thread which is both redundant and frustrating since yet again many assertions are made -- and nothing proven.

Post 51 (all about saviors), and 58,  and 63, and 73 / Synoptic segue, post 79 gives a link to more of the same, to whit "THIS MAY BE CLEARER" and "JUMP START: WHY I WANT A HISTORICAL JESUS"

Why must we continue in page after page, thread after thread down the Alice in Wonderland rabbit hole of the historical (non-provable) Jesus?  Plastering indeed!




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