Alex
Administrator
ok, maybe, but as you know there are a lot of other hoops to jump thru in order to put Jesus back together again. my point is, why try? Jesus is at the vbery least made real by our collective consciousness. and even if he's real historically as well we still have to wrestle with which one is more real/important/significant. I would suggest that the Jesus of our collective consciousness is what's most important.I agree that much of Christian apologetics is an easy straw man to knock down. However, if Christ is first mentioned in the writings of Paul in the 50's CE, Josephus surrendered in 67 CE, and wrote The Jewish War in 75 CE, then doesn't Paul's account of Jesus predate Josephus' writing by 25 years?