Concrete archaeological evidence is tremendously unlikely to ever surface. The afforementioned statement is a plausible conjecture based on what circumstantial evidence is apparent weighed against what we consider reasonable human behavior at the time. The purpose of the statement isn’t proof, but to be an academically sound conclusion to a mystery a lot of people take very seriously.
It would be just as foolish to declare the Jesus of the bible absolutely couldn’t exist as it would be to declare that he absolutely did.
and yet there’s concrete evidence for so many historical figures that predate this character; you can find engravings of profiles on coins, statues, the list is long for folks like pliny, archimedes, anthony and fucking cleopatra etc., but you’re asserting that there’s some guy running around performing MIRACLES - and we have to accept ‘well it would be foolish to declare this guy couldn’t exist’ without evidence.
ooh but scholars - yeah, well, scholars were sure dinosaurs were giant lumbering lizards, and we now know there were feathers, evidence of warm blood and coordinated hunts. evidence for a literal christ is all circumstantial / apocrypha / dogma.
sorry, I don’t think skepticism is in any way foolish, in fact, I think your adherence to the 2000 year old hearsay is foolish.
Concrete archaeological evidence is tremendously unlikely to ever surface. The afforementioned statement is a plausible conjecture based on what circumstantial evidence is apparent weighed against what we consider reasonable human behavior at the time. The purpose of the statement isn’t proof, but to be an academically sound conclusion to a mystery a lot of people take very seriously.
It would be just as foolish to declare the Jesus of the bible absolutely couldn’t exist as it would be to declare that he absolutely did.
and yet there’s concrete evidence for so many historical figures that predate this character; you can find engravings of profiles on coins, statues, the list is long for folks like pliny, archimedes, anthony and fucking cleopatra etc., but you’re asserting that there’s some guy running around performing MIRACLES - and we have to accept ‘well it would be foolish to declare this guy couldn’t exist’ without evidence.
furthermore, exceptional claims require exceptional evidence.
ooh but scholars - yeah, well, scholars were sure dinosaurs were giant lumbering lizards, and we now know there were feathers, evidence of warm blood and coordinated hunts. evidence for a literal christ is all circumstantial / apocrypha / dogma.
sorry, I don’t think skepticism is in any way foolish, in fact, I think your adherence to the 2000 year old hearsay is foolish.