# Evidence of a historical Jesus Christ

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 22, 2011, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-a-historical-jesus-christ/590017 "2011-07-22T19:25:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![ITR\_champion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c67d28/32.png) [@ITR\_champion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ITR_champion)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/evidence-of-a-historical-jesus-christ/590017/63 "2011-07-24T07:59:36Z")

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> [@brocks](#):
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> Not in general. It depends on the nature of the error, and the claims of the source. A typo in a math book wouldn’t bother me. Complete fabrication, in a book that claims that I am doomed to eternal torment unless I live my life in accordance with other miraculous assertions in that same book, is indeed grounds for discarding the whole thing.
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> I reluctantly concede that you have reasonable grounds to no longer consider me infallible, or even divinely inspired.

Okay, well consider this. You have a very strong belief in a great many things that are flatly untrue. For example, in [this post](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=14044894&postcount=57) you wrote:

> [@brocks](#):
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> Can you not make a case that people who say (as IIRC some congressman recently did) that there is no need to address environmental concerns, because God will take care of it, are not properly functioning in society? Are not the conservative American Christians who went to Uganda and inspired them to take Leviticus literally and enact laws calling for the death penalty for homosexuals a detriment to society?

Now there’s no congressman who said what you claimed he said, and no American Christians have gone to Uganda and inspired them to take Leviticus literally and enact laws calling for the death penalty for homosexuals. (Some folks might say that it’s morally wrong to falsely accuse people of murder.) So by your own standards, should I “discard the entire thing”? Obviuosly it’s an important question, because you’ren ot much into providing evidence to back up anything you say. When you make declarations like “Absolute divine inspiration is the only reasonable position to take for any book that claims to know what God thinks, let alone one whose authors are largely anonymous” I can’t look at your reasoning because you don’t give any. My only choices are to trust whatever you say on faith or to dismiss it.

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