Posted: May 08, 2012 2:26 pm
archibald wrote:proudfootz wrote:.......which means that even though experts in the study of the historical Jesus (and Christian origins, and classics, and ancient history, etc etc.) have known in the back of their minds all sorts of powerful reasons for simply assuming that Jesus existed, no one had ever tried to prove it.
I suspect the phrase 'powerful reasons for simply assuming' says it all.
Yes, like children who assume Santa Claus exists because that's what they were told can consider themselves 'Santa experts' without ever realizing there's no basis in fact for their 'knowledge'...