Re: Carrier on Spirituality
Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 3:41 pm
Hi Interbane,
Carrier is an historian,so presumably he believes it is possible to discover historical facts.And ancient historians works would be a good place to look.
I'm certainly not taking Carrier's word for it that the first Christians hallucinated a celestial being and that this being was crucified in outer space.
Then somehow years later some mysterious characters "euhemerized" a fictional earthly history in the gospels saying an historic person Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem under Pontius Pilate.
Meanwhile, strangely, Christian loving historian,Tacitus,in Rome says the same thing.
It's a bit tedious for me to point by point show the fallacies in Carrier's interpretations of the new testament. One essential point he holds is that this Jesus,Paul talks about was a spiritual not a physical being.
Here's a link to Dan Wallace having a look at Carrier's translating and interpreting in one passage on this subject.
http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2 ... ical-body/
Carrier is an historian,so presumably he believes it is possible to discover historical facts.And ancient historians works would be a good place to look.
I'm certainly not taking Carrier's word for it that the first Christians hallucinated a celestial being and that this being was crucified in outer space.
Then somehow years later some mysterious characters "euhemerized" a fictional earthly history in the gospels saying an historic person Jesus was crucified in Jerusalem under Pontius Pilate.
Meanwhile, strangely, Christian loving historian,Tacitus,in Rome says the same thing.
It's a bit tedious for me to point by point show the fallacies in Carrier's interpretations of the new testament. One essential point he holds is that this Jesus,Paul talks about was a spiritual not a physical being.
Here's a link to Dan Wallace having a look at Carrier's translating and interpreting in one passage on this subject.
http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2 ... ical-body/