On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 06:31:24 +1000 "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com> wrote:
Someone like Jesus the man had to exist, in that the rabbis were engaged in a holiness spiral,
"holiness spiral" - what could such meaningless lunatic vomit mean? Oh wait. it is meaningless vomit.
a holiness spiral will get called out by prophets, and then those prophets get suppressed, and someone like Pontius Pilate had to exist, in that the Roman Empire ruled the area, and history records Jesus as one of those prophets, and Pontius Pilate as one of the Roman Empire's administrators.
gotta love lunatic 1000% circular logic the fraud jesus gotta exist because the story is a frraud.
And if our records of Jesus the man are a bit thin, our records of Pontius Pilate are not a whole lot thicker.
there was no jesus the man