{"id":31655,"date":"2015-09-04T06:37:55","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T10:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=31655"},"modified":"2015-09-04T06:37:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T10:37:55","slug":"the-myth-of-a-mythical-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/09\/the-myth-of-a-mythical-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of a Mythical Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-31656\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/09\/To-make-Jesus-a-myth-you-have-to-invent-the-myth-of-a-Jesus-myth-Dooley-quote-1024x576.png\" alt=\"To make Jesus a myth you have to invent the myth of a Jesus myth Dooley quote\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\"><\/p>\n<p>I appreciated this way that Tim Dooley expressed a major problem with\u00a0Jesus mythicism on Facebook, and so asked for permission to turn it into a meme.\u00a0Mythicism tries, on the one hand, to turn the writings of early Christians who thought Jesus had lived in history into\u00a0evidence of something else, while on the other hand, it concocts belief in Jesus as a\u00a0purely celestial figure for which the evidence is there own implausible interpretations of texts which appear to mean something else. 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