Historicity of Jesus Debate
A few days ago I published a post of a debate which Trent Horn from Catholic Answers had on the subject of abortion. Today’s post is of another debate in which Trent recently engaged, this time with the famous mythicist, Dr. Richard Carrier:
I was fortunate enough to ask a question Dr. Carrier a question concerning Ignatius of Antioch. There other question I wanted to ask though. Given that Dr. Carrier regards the Gospels as large works of allegory, what does he make of all the New Testament scholarship which explores the different senses of Scripture, one of which is the allegorical sense. Wouldn’t that mean that we have allegories inside allegories?
I will certainly say that Dr. Carrier knows his stuff, but by the end of this debate I was honestly bewildered by his position. Not only is it rather complicated, he has to go to great lengths to explain away the all the evidence which points to a far simpler narrative: that there was a man named Jesus of Nazareth who lived in the First Century whose followers claimed rose bodily from the dead.
I found Dr. Carrier often making unsupportable presumptions and conjectures in order to defend his claims – for instance, saying this is what and how we would expect St. Paul to write if he was covering “this” up. So many times during the debate I would think, “How can he know THAT (the writer’s intentions.)”
Hey Cheryl, welcome to Restless Pilgrim. Yeah, I found Dr. Carrier’s position is based on a vaaaaaast amount of speculation.