There are much better reasons offered by people for finding Christian faith (or any kind of belief in God) too much of a stretch.\u00a0 The attempts to deny Jesus\u2019 historical existence are, for anyone acquainted with the relevant evidence, blatantly silly.\u00a0 So, let those who want to argue for or against Christian faith do so on more serious grounds, and let those of us who do historical investigation of Jesus and Christian Origins practice our craft without having to deal with the strategems-masquerading-as-history represented by the mythical Jesus advocates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
All power to Larry Hurtado, he kicked the beehive of crazy, amateur, angry conspiracy theorists who deny\u00a0that the historical Jesus existed. Read his blog posts here and here, and the comments show just how inane, vapid, and vacuous\u00a0Jesus mythicism is. There are much better reasons offered by people for finding Christian faith (or any kind […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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