Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who asserts that persons and events appearing or alleged to be supernatural are imaginary or have for their basis a myth.
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Examples
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Of course, evolutionists swamp creationists with evidence for common descent, but all James can do is call mythicist questions 'bizarre misreadings' and refuse to discuss them.
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When we compare the standard historicist theory (SHT) with Doherty's ahistoricist or "mythicist" theory (DMT) by the criteria of the Argument to the Best Explanation, I must admit that, at present, Doherty wins on at least four out of the six criteria (scope, power, plausibility, and ad hocness ; I think DMT is equal to SHT on the fifth criterion of disconfirmation ; neither SHT nor DMT wins on the sixth and decisive criterion).
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She helpfully clarifies that this doesn't lead her to a "mythicist" position, because "parallels between Jesus' myth and other ancient myths tell us nothing about whether or not he lived as a real person.
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Whereas YEC used to be mainstream (at least in medieval Europe), pseudohistorical conspiracy-theorist mythicist apologetics never was (and probably/hopefully never will be).
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The only consistent response to the mythicist position throughout the blogs on mythcism here has been juvenile ridicule
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That's the difference, if we only had stuff like the gospel of Matthew I don't think that anybody would be a mythicist.
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I haven't read a mythicist who uses Q yet, who supports their use with an argument for its existence.
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Antonio Jerez, the Einstein is appropriate here in every blog discussing the mythicist position because it's precisely what is going on here - I have yet to see anything by McGrath or you that shows any serious investigation into the case for mythicism.
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Since when does the mythicist argument (any mythicist argument that I know of) deny historicity of an event or person on grounds that we have no surviving eyewitness or "first-hand source" (whatever that means) to that event or person?
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What I have written, James, is not found in any mythicist book or argument I have ever seen or read.
More Mythicist-Creationist Parallels: Messiahs, Wisdom and Jesus
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