MugaSofer comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (5th thread, March 2013) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 12 April 2013 08:12:15PM *  -1 points [-]

Well, I mentioned I'm technically Christian (despite my deist leanings), right? I think the evidence in favor of Jesus being, well, the Son of God is good enough to over come my prior, although to be fair I have a significantly higher prior of such things than the LW norm, because theism. If Jesus was God, naturally anything that can be traced back to him is in some sense "divinely inspired" - so the Gospels, mostly. I'm less confident about the status of the rest of the NT, but again, probably miracles (albeit lower certainty than those of Jesus, I guess) so probably some level of Godly origin, at least for the parts that claim to have such an origin.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 12 April 2013 08:45:16PM 3 points [-]

(nods) That answers my question. Thank you.