Most of the Jesus-biographical content reported in the gospels faithfully falls within what the relevant witnesses were themselves saying and approving.
• Gospel authors got it all witness-approved or close.
• Gospels spew witness-based stories.
• Gospel stories are not lies/legends.
• Gospel stories are a subset of 1st church’s.
• The Gospels are historically reliable.
• Pop Jesus-bio was a subset of what witnesses said.
But no… [All forthcoming]
• The Gospel stories are lies/legends.
• Gospels only ask to be read as myth.
All things considered, there are relatively few candidate inaccuracies in the Gospels.1
But so what? Plausibly…
• Verified inaccuracies are just harder for us to discover/confirm.
• Miracles don’t occur.
• The Gospels mutually disagree on Jesus-bio.
• The Gospels spew observed historical absurdities.
• The Gospels spew observed lies/legends.
• The Gospels spew observed myths (non-historical genre).
The gospels are rich in observed inaccuracies.
• Miracles are prohibitively improbable/impossible.
• The Gospels mutually disagree on Jesus-bio.
• The Gospels spew historical absurdities.
• The Gospels are non-historical genre.
• The Gospels would spew inaccuracies.