Max
All of your schoolyard insults are nothing to me -do you want the quote?
Calling me names is easy, I can and will back my claims, you can not.
Ok i will try again to explain this simple point about the meaning of mythicism, since you still havent understood it
You are obsessed with this idea of Jesus being "partially" real, and partially mythic, and i am trying to explain to you why that is a logical error, since the issue of historicism vs mythicism is all-or-nothing. Jesus must be entirely historical, or else entirely mythical, there are no other possibilities. If you understood the debate, you would have already realised this and it wouldnt be necessary to spend 10 pages trying to explain it.
Key point to grasp - the concept of "partly true, partly myth" could apply to a
story but it cannot apply to a
person. This is because stories can be divided into parts, but people cannot be divided into parts.
This concept of partial mythicism could apply to a
story because parts of the story could describe real life events while part of the story could be made up. Many people believe this about Jesus, for example the scholar Ehrman, as an atheist, holds that the supernatural elements of theJesus stories such as the virgin birth and the ressurection are not literally true, whereas certain other elements such as the crucifixion and last supper are literally true.
However the concept of partial mythicism that you keep referring back to cannot apply to a
person (such as Jesus) because that is a logical category error. As i have stated repeatedly in the last 10 pages, a person cannot be less than fully real (or more than fully unreal). The only possible options are that a person (such as Jesus, or a generalised 'person x') is fully real or else fully unreal. So Jesus can either be fully real, or fully unreal, but nothing else.
Take yourself for example, are you (1)fully real, (2)fully unreal, or (3)partially real and partially unreal? - Obviously, you are (1)fully real, and option (3) is not conceivably possible.
The debate about historicism versus mythicism is about whether Jesus existed or not, it is not about whether some aspects of the Jesus stories are not literally true. Mythicists are people (such as Doherty and Carrier) who do not believe that the historical Jesus ever existed.