• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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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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              4 months ago

              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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                4 months ago

                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.