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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)Christianity, as a Jewish sect, began when someone (most likely Cephas, perhaps backed by his closest devotees) claimed this [celestial deity] "Jesus" had at last revealed that he had tricked the Devil by becoming incarnate and being crucified by the Devil (in the region of the heavens ruled by Devil), thereby atoning for all of Israel's sins. ... It would be several decades later when subsequent members of this cult, after the world had not yet ended as claimed, started allegorizing the gospel of this angelic being. By placing him in earth history as a divine man, as a commentary on the gospel and its relation to society and the Christian mission.
Christianity, as a Jewish sect, began when someone (most likely Cephas, perhaps backed by his closest devotees) claimed this [celestial deity] "Jesus" had at last revealed that he had tricked the Devil by becoming incarnate and being crucified by the Devil (in the region of the heavens ruled by Devil), thereby atoning for all of Israel's sins. ... It would be several decades later when subsequent members of this cult, after the world had not yet ended as claimed, started allegorizing the gospel of this angelic being. By placing him in earth history as a divine man, as a commentary on the gospel and its relation to society and the Christian mission.
[Carrier's] social model will strike many New Testament scholars as quite antiquated due to its overreliance upon rabbinic materials. Although he does attempt to recruit Philo and Josephus for his purposes as well, Philo—he agrees—may support the common Jewish understanding of the soul's immortality and his readings of Josephus simply do not represent a convincing departure from established thinking on Josephus's concept of the afterlife. Linguistically, Carrier runs into several problems as well. In addition to a committal of a fairly basic word-study fallacy and problems with identifying the grammatical subject and referential cohesion, Carrier fails to consider wider frames of co-text in his interpretation of 1 Cor 15:44 and does not provide his readers with convincing reasons to accept his rendering of ἀλαγησόμεθα as an exchange. [...] Thus, the widely held transformation view still seems preferable to the exchange theory proposed by Carrier and several others before him.
Branch: Centre for Inquiry Ottawa
Atheism Vs Christianity Debate Series. Please note that the first 4 minutes of this video are not available due to technical issues.
[Richard Carrier's hypothesis of 'minimal mythicism'], highly influenced by the work of Earl Doherty, states that Jesus was initially believed to be a celestial figure, who came to be historicised over time.
Dr. Richard Carrier & Mark Smith -vs- Rev. Doug Hamp & Dr. Dave Lehman, Huntington Beach, CA
Hosted by the Philosophy Club student organization and posted online part-1 & part-2
The Official Website of Richard Carrier, Ph.D.
[A]part from what we can determine from and for the Rank-Raglan data, nothing in the Gospels argues for or against historicity: OHJ, pp. 395, 506–509.