A Christian Response by Stephen J. Bedard
This is my final instalment of my series looking at Raphael Lataster’s article, Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories. Here, I will look at his conclusion and then give some final thoughts of my own. None of the sources used to establish Jesus’ historicity or to provide authentic historical material regarding Jesus’ sayings and … Read More “Raphael Lataster and Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories – Part Six” »
This continues my series that responds to Raphael Lataster’s article, Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories. After critiquing the biblical evidence for Jesus, he goes on to look at the extra-biblical evidence. I have no desire to defend the Roman evidence. I think it is helpful and interesting, but it mostly just testifies that … Read More “Raphael Lataster and Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories – Part Five” »
I have been doing a series responding to an article by Raphael Lataster about the Je sun Myth. This is not a part of the main series but an aside about comments regarding the early church Fathers. Lataster states: While even secular scholars today might counter-intuitively downplay the significance of these parallels, important and influential … Read More “Early Church Fathers and Pagan Parallels to Jesus” »
This is a continuation of a series of responses to “Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories” by Raphael Lataster. This time, we will look at his suggestion that some supposed parallels in other texts suggest the Gospels cannot be taken as history. I found this to be one of the weakest parts of Lataster’s … Read More “Raphael Lataster and Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories – Part Four” »
This is my continuation of my series looking at the article “Raphael Lataster and Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories” by Raphael Lataster. In this post, I look at his criticism of the canonical Gospels. My first observation is that I am shocked that a person with a PhD who teaches at a university … Read More “Raphael Lataster and Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories – Part Three” »
I have been doing a series of posts that respond to an article written by Raphael Lataster. This post is not officially a part of that series but is more of an aside. Lataster suggests that Hebrews 8:4 teaches that Jesus never appeared on earth. Here is the passage: If he (Jesus) were on earth, … Read More “Does Hebrews Teach That Jesus Never Appeared on Earth?” »
In this post, I continue to look at the article “Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories” written by Raphael Lataster. I am not going to comment on everything he says but there are certain things I would like to respond to. In this post, I look at his critique of Paul’s epistles as evidence … Read More “Raphael Lataster and Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories – Part Two” »
One of the few Jesus Mythicist with any kind of relevant credentials is Raphael Lataster. He has had an article published in a journal titled, “Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories.” I am not going to reply to everything that he says in the article but there are a couple of comments that I … Read More “Raphael Lataster and Questioning the Plausibility of Jesus Ahistoricity Theories – Part One” »
