Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"

On 4/15/2025 9:08 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:

BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> writes:

On 4/14/2025 10:25 PM, James Kuyper wrote:

On 4/14/25 19:41, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:56:56 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

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That would not be practical or useful.  The timing of the Big Bang is
not known with great precision ...

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Neither is that of some fictional religious entity.

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Not true. While his divinity is fictional, there might have been a
person who was the inspiration for those stories. Whether or not he was
real, the stories of his life are only consistent with a very specific
time period, which narrows the time period of his (possibly fictional)
birth to within just a few years. The uncertainty in the timing of the
Big Bang is currently about 59 million years.
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He was a real person,

 There is no contemporaneous evidence; it was all written 70-100 years
later.
 And we know from hard experience just how much a story can morph in
a decade, much less a century.

 From what I had read, both the Romans and Jewish Rabbi's had secondary written accounts about him, although in a less positive light, and lacking in terms of the more supernatural elements (and from different vantage points).
No point in them writing about someone that didn't exist.
But, yeah, all the New Testament stuff was written after the fact...
Well, and most of it is a collection of various letters written by Paul and similar, etc.
But, yeah, the point is more that there are references to him existing from outside of the New Testament, so it isn't like it was the only source.
Granted, this is not saying that the NT is necessarily historically accurate nor entirely free of embellishment in terms of the details (say, if one allows that it was, in fact, written by humans).
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