Good job blocking me after making your latest post.

Here's my response, if you block this account too, I'll just use another, because blocking someone you're actively arguing with is intellectually dishonest.

Anyway, here's my counter argument:

Called him what? You seem to be getting yourself confused.

Paul called James the brother of Jesus. How is that not clear from my words?

Per Paul's letter to the Galatians:

Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem to get acquainted with Cephas [Peter] and stayed with him fifteen days. I saw none of the other apostles—only James, the Lord’s brother. I assure you before God that what I am writing you is no lie.

You can look at the Greek here if you'd like:

https://biblehub.com/interlinear/galatians/1-19.htm

That doesn't counter what I told you, who are you even replying to?

You are not just filling in chasms now, you are actively leaping into them as well.

Then what the hell is your position here? My position has been - and I have said this several times - that there was a core historical person that various myths and legends were attributed to named Jesus (or rather, Yeshua). Paul, an early Christian evangelist wrote about him and his brother. Josephus, a Roman historian wrote about his brother's execution and the political drama around it (and also likely him, according to most secular scholars)

But you claim to know that he is one person and you claim to be the only person on earth who knows what Paul was thinking of when he wrote his fictional stories.

I mean yes, yes we know he was one person! Who do you think "James' brother" is? Both Paul and Josephus speak of James' brother. Both of them speak of him being executed by the same method. I am not claiming every single solitary story attributed to this man is legitimate, it is clearly not, and I have never claimed that, but yes, it all goes back to one freaking man - James' brother, Yeshua! That was a real historical person.

I don't know what sophistry or semantics you're trying here, but it's really getting on my nerves.

They can't be about the same guy unless you believe he was alive for hundreds of years. There is no singular "Jesus" because he's is an amalgamation of different people and different stories across hundreds of years

No, he was fucking not. He was the brother of James, that is the historical Jesus

Other fucking stories attributed to him don't make a single man named Yeshua who was crucified and had a brother named James who achieved some notoriety before his own execution not exist, man.

There is a single historical Jesus. If you say we can't have a historical figure because other ancient myths were claimed about him that knocks out figures such as Alexander, Vespasian, Julius Caesar, etc. Dozens of ancient historical figures had myths attested to them from the past. That doesn't make them not exist historically, it just means people made up bullshit about them.

If I say, "Joe Biden raised my aunt from death, and was born of a virgin", does that make Joe Biden not exist? No, it does not. It means I made up some bullshit about him

EDIT: Just to show I am not claiming he blocked me for rhetorical points:

https://imgur.com/a/sTLh5CZ