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A discussion on Facebook of my recent blog post helped me distill the essence of what disturbs me about mythicism. Here it is in a nutshell: <\/p>\n

This is why I find mythicism so disturbing. There is a willingness to bring in any and every late source to attempt to argue against Jesus\u2019 existence, but resistance to bringing in even the earliest sources in favor of his existence<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Yet those who argue in favor of the mainstream historical conclusions that are accepted not merely by Christians (who could be accused of bias) but atheists, Jews, and indeed pretty much everyone engaged in academic historical study, are accused by mythicists of being \u201capologists.\u201d To which I reply: If picking late evidence that supports your viewpoint,\u00a0while disregarding or rejecting\u00a0early evidence that undermines it,\u00a0doesn\u2019t suggest one is engaging in \u201capologetics,\u201d then I don\u2019t know what would.<\/p>\n

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A discussion on Facebook of my recent blog post helped me distill the essence of what disturbs me about mythicism. Here it is in a nutshell: This is why I find mythicism so disturbing. There is a willingness to bring in any and every late source to attempt to argue against Jesus\u2019 existence, but resistance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nWhy I Find Mythicism Disturbing in a Nutshell<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A discussion on Facebook of my recent blog post helped me distill the essence of what disturbs me about mythicism. 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