Wesley Huff

Or that you would worship a crucified, like, teacher was just seen as silly.

Yeah. Yeah. And that, like, a god would let himself go through this. Right. Like, what are you talking about? Right. The ancient world didn't really have a problem with supernatural events. There is an ancient writer who mocks Christianity, and he particularly mocks Christianity in saying that, of course, Jesus did miracles because Jesus had a childhood in Egypt.

Yeah. Yeah. And that, like, a god would let himself go through this. Right. Like, what are you talking about? Right. The ancient world didn't really have a problem with supernatural events. There is an ancient writer who mocks Christianity, and he particularly mocks Christianity in saying that, of course, Jesus did miracles because Jesus had a childhood in Egypt.

Yeah. Yeah. And that, like, a god would let himself go through this. Right. Like, what are you talking about? Right. The ancient world didn't really have a problem with supernatural events. There is an ancient writer who mocks Christianity, and he particularly mocks Christianity in saying that, of course, Jesus did miracles because Jesus had a childhood in Egypt.

And he goes, all those Egyptians are magicians anyways. So he just learned the magic when he was a child. So he actually confirms, incidentally, two things, that the narrative in the Gospels where it says that the Holy Family fled to Egypt during the reign of Herod, he corroborates that he actually thinks that happened and that Jesus did miracles.

And he goes, all those Egyptians are magicians anyways. So he just learned the magic when he was a child. So he actually confirms, incidentally, two things, that the narrative in the Gospels where it says that the Holy Family fled to Egypt during the reign of Herod, he corroborates that he actually thinks that happened and that Jesus did miracles.

And he goes, all those Egyptians are magicians anyways. So he just learned the magic when he was a child. So he actually confirms, incidentally, two things, that the narrative in the Gospels where it says that the Holy Family fled to Egypt during the reign of Herod, he corroborates that he actually thinks that happened and that Jesus did miracles.

He just attributes the miracles to Jesus being a traveling magician anyways. And, you know, anybody who lived in Egypt knows some magic.

He just attributes the miracles to Jesus being a traveling magician anyways. And, you know, anybody who lived in Egypt knows some magic.

He just attributes the miracles to Jesus being a traveling magician anyways. And, you know, anybody who lived in Egypt knows some magic.

Yeah. Yeah, but everybody believed in supernatural events. Like, there's no such thing as... Like a secular work in the ancient world. Even Plutarch, who's one of the most famous biographers in the ancient world, he wrote 90 biographies, of which 60 still survive today. He was a priest of Apollo. So he's already assuming that the gods exist, that crazy things are going to happen in the world.

Yeah. Yeah, but everybody believed in supernatural events. Like, there's no such thing as... Like a secular work in the ancient world. Even Plutarch, who's one of the most famous biographers in the ancient world, he wrote 90 biographies, of which 60 still survive today. He was a priest of Apollo. So he's already assuming that the gods exist, that crazy things are going to happen in the world.

Yeah. Yeah, but everybody believed in supernatural events. Like, there's no such thing as... Like a secular work in the ancient world. Even Plutarch, who's one of the most famous biographers in the ancient world, he wrote 90 biographies, of which 60 still survive today. He was a priest of Apollo. So he's already assuming that the gods exist, that crazy things are going to happen in the world.

And so... They didn't have a problem with people doing miracles or crazy things happening.

And so... They didn't have a problem with people doing miracles or crazy things happening.

And so... They didn't have a problem with people doing miracles or crazy things happening.

Yeah. So this historiographically is so when we do history, it's an inference to the best explanation. And so there are probabilities of things that have happened in history where we can say, OK, there's a higher probability of event A happening and a lower probability of event B happening. So the example I often give is like Jonah being swallowed by the fish.

Yeah. So this historiographically is so when we do history, it's an inference to the best explanation. And so there are probabilities of things that have happened in history where we can say, OK, there's a higher probability of event A happening and a lower probability of event B happening. So the example I often give is like Jonah being swallowed by the fish.

Yeah. So this historiographically is so when we do history, it's an inference to the best explanation. And so there are probabilities of things that have happened in history where we can say, OK, there's a higher probability of event A happening and a lower probability of event B happening. So the example I often give is like Jonah being swallowed by the fish.

Like that's low probabilistically, not that it didn't happen, but that like as a historian, we got to like say, well, there's no independent cross-reference sources. You don't have multiple attestation for this particular event. The interesting thing about Jesus is that we have more evidence.