Carrier has a doctorate in ancient history from Columbia University where his thesis was on the history of science in antiquity.
TAGS RICHARD CARRIER (64) CHRISTIANITY (163) CHRISTIAN (610)
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Resurrection was common amongst many Pagan Gods: Osiris, Horus, Dionysus etc. - Richard Carrier
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Bible is full of Myths, Corruption and Lies - Richard Carrier
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Why Invent Jesus the God-Man? - Richard Carrier
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Luke the Liar wrote Acts as Historical Fiction - Richard Carrier
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Did Jesus Even Exist? - Richard Carrier
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Is Christianity and Jesus a Myth? - Richard Carrier
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Early History and Authorship of the Gospels - Richard Carrier 1/2
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If Jesus existed, why did Apostle Paul write so little about him? - Richard Carrier
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Why the Gospels are Fiction - Richard Carrier
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Early History and Authorship of the Gospels - Richard Carrier 2/2
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Christianity debunked using Science & History - Richard Carrier
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Did Christianity invent Jesus? - Richard Carrier
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Mystery Faith: The Historical Mythical Jesus - Richard Carrier 1/2
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Christianity was created by joining Judaism with Mystery Cults - Richard Carrier
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You could invent Christianity or any cult quoting Old Testament text - Richard Carrier
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Jesus/Joshua was a very common name. 4% of Jewish men were named Jesus - Richard Carrier
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Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official state religion and forced it on the people - Richard Carrier
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Jews believed in Archangel Jesus as God's celestial high priest. Christians did too? - Richard Carrier
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In the Christian gospel, Ascension of Isaiah, Jesus was crucified by Satan in outer Space - Richard Carrier
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Bible scholars agree 2 Peter is a forgery - Richard Carrier
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Dying & Rising Savior Gods was a common belief long before Jesus was born - Richard Carrier
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In Hebrews 9:15, Christians replaced the Jewish Temple sacrificial Lamb with ultimate sacrifice, Jesus Christ - Richard Carrier
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After Jesus' Crucifixion, 50 years of Christian history and evidences is missing - Richard Carrier
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Most Early Christian Gospels, Acts and Epistles were forgeries and fakes - Richard Carrier
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Dying & Rising Saviour Gods did exist before Jesus Christ. This is historical fact - Richard Carrier
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Christian Gospels are Symbolic Fiction; mythical narratives mined from Jewish texts and Pagan myths. Gospels are not history - Richard Carrier
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Apostle Paul claims he received revelation from Jesus, 20 years after his crucifixion - Richard Carrier
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Apostle Paul believed in a earthly Jesus, or a celestial, spiritual Jesus - Richard Carrier
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Luke, author of Acts copies and contradicts his travelling companion, Apostle Paul - Richard Carrier
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John copies from Mark, Matthew and Luke and adds his own reasoning, experts agree - Richard Carrier
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Mark, Matthew, Luke or John do not give eyewitness' names or their sources - Richard Carrier
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Jesus' life narrative has no external evidence or corroborative accounts - Richard Carrier
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Jesus stories are plagarized versions of Moses', the Old Testament prophet - Richard Carrier
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Jesus in Luke's Gospel plagarized from Elijah-Elisha in 1 Kings - Richard Carrier
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In Mark 11:13, Jesus cursed Fig tree is allegory for God abandoning the Jewish Temple cult - Richard Carrier
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Jesus' Crucifixion is plagarized from John The Baptist's baptism - Richard Carrier
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In Mark's Gospel, a 'triadic' structure may be evidence for Jesus Christ myth - Richard Carrier
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In Matthew's Gospel, an 'onion ring' structure points to the Jesus Christ myth - Richard Carrier
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In Matthew's Gospel, an 'onion ring' structure details Jesus' Crucifixion - Richard Carrier
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Sermon on the Mount' used the Septuagint. The Sermon was not spoken by Jesus - Richard Carrier
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In Luke, the stories of Jesus-Temple and Jesus-Emeous bear striking similarities - Richard Carrier
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In John, an 'onion ring' structure is used to write of Jesus' miracles - Richard Carrier
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In John 13:23, Jesus' beloved disciple has to be Lazarus - Richard Carrier
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In Luke 16:20, Lazarus is fiction. John makes Lazarus into a real, dying/rising person - Richard Carrier
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Gospel authors were highly educated, Greek, literary scholars who copied from Septuagint - Richard Carrier
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Jesus, a historical human may have existed. Jesus Christ, divine God-Man probably did not - Richard Carrier
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On the Gospel writers: Matthew copied Mark, Luke copied Matthew and Mark, John copied Luke - Richard Carrier
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Apostle Paul wrote of a spiritual, celestial, heavenly Jesus - Richard Carrier
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Apostle Paul evidences Jesus as a Spiritual, celestial being sent from Heaven - Richard Carrier
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Resurrection of Jesus - Richard Carrier vs Mike Licona 1/2
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Resurrection of Jesus - Richard Carrier vs Mike Licona 2/2
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Was Jesus a Myth? - Richard Carrier 1/2
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Was Jesus a Myth? - Richard Carrier 2/2
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Jesus Under The Microscope - Richard Carrier vs Trent Horn
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Jesus Rise From Dead? | Richard Carrier vs Mike Licona
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Apostle Paul was not Trinitarian. His Jesus was 'less' than God (Subordinationism) - Richard Carrier
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Apostle Paul differentiates between Jesus and God. They are not the same being - Richard Carrier
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Both Apostle Paul and Philo of Alexandria wrote of Jesus the supreme Archangel in Jewish Angelology - Richard Carrier
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Apostle Paul's writings appear to be multiple letters merged into 'single, engineered, ambiguous' Epistles - Richard Carrier
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Babylonian Talmud (500 AD) referenced a Jesus who pre-dated Pontius Pilate by 100-years - Richard Carrier
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Pesher, the Jewish practise of interpreting Texts predicted Jesus in various OT verse - Richard Carrier
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Apostle Paul met Jesus in Spiritual visions. Later, Gospel authors transitioned to Physical encounters - Richard Carrier
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Mark's Gospel wrote mythical Jesus stories using Apostle Paul's Letters, for Christian missionaries to preach - Richard Carrier
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Gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, John disagreed over Torah, Jewish Law & Gentiles - Richard Carrier
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