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In reply to the discussion: The 20 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies Ever [View all]defacto7
(14,158 posts)I'm not getting into this old and completely divisive argument for the 400th time on the Internet, but I had to make the statement because most of your points come from incredible supper-support of a dogma for the sake of dogma. Most "modern scholars of antiquity" do not hold the historicity of the Jesus of biblical texts as a fact or even close. "Biblical scholars" from religious backgrounds lean more in that direction because of the non-scientific approach to the question but even they are not all in agreement, just in the greater number because of a search for proof not truth. The closest that scholars of antiquity, as you put it, come to putting an actual man in the position Jesus of the New Testament is to say that "it's possible" but not likely based on lack of evidence AND evidence to the contrary concerning the Roman political climate, its track record, and its needs at the time, plus the proven false statements of the only actual sources in verifiable texts.
In other words, if you are looking to believe something, you will find people to support it. If you are looking for facts in data, you may or may not find an answer, but you will most certainly come closer to the truth.
The floor is yours. I won't continue the subject because it is not that interesting to me anymore and it's futile to argue with beliefs that are founded in an immovable construct.