Re: What Atheists Can't Answer

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:03:12 +0100, "Westapostle"
<westprog@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> It's still a reasonable historical assertion to accept there was a
>> historical JBJ.  There is evidence outside the NT of that.
>
>And even if there weren't, it seems unlikely that they'd make one up. We
can
>see a similar effect today with people like princess Diana, who has
achieved
>a form of secular wor****p. In pagan times, I'd expect her to be a goddess
by
>now.

Well, at least until the home video of her and Dodi comes out.  Who
knows, the illogic of that cult is such that it might inflate her
reputation even further.

>I don't think the other sources really give us much of a personality
though.

Sure, but aside from brief references to JBJ which undoubtedly
wouldn't have escaped the attention of the Christian censors, there's
some excellent contem****ary context of Judea at the time from Josephus
which can be used to place JBJ in historical context.  There are even
parallel messianic figures being bumped off by the client regime and
the Romans after various rebellions long before we get to the main
Jewish Revolt.

Any understanding of JBJ as a historical figure has to engage with the
historical political, cultural and religious context of contem****ary
Judea from that source alone.

Gavin Bailey

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