No provenance.......positive assertion needing proof
Fantastical claims.....argument from incredulity?
Indistinguishable from fiction.....doesn't that apply to all claims?
Don't be silly, Vlad - again.
The claim is Spud's, and by association yours. So, show us the provenance for the NT: who wrote it, when, and where, and explain how you guys have addressed the risks of mistakes or lies - hard to do in the absence of any substantive provenance.
Examples of the fantastical claims in the NT are, say, someone walking on water, say someone feeding thousands using only a packet of fish fingers and a Sunblest loaf, and say someone being dead but not remaining so - now I'd suggest that these claims could only be believed by someone whose personal incredulity had already won out over healthy scepticism. To doubt unsubstantantiated fantasical claims is not an example of personal incredulity, which you should know by now.
'Indistinguishable from fiction' applies to those elements that are clearly fantasical - see above. Hence if a write a story about walk up Byres Road in the west end of Glasgow and I describe the various streets I have to cross then that isn't fantastical, since it is factual. However if I go on to say that as I crossed Vinicombe Street I encountered a demon who said 'good afternoon' and then disappeared in a puff of smoke that would be fantastical and I expect, and hope, that you'd have difficulty accepting that claim on my word alone.
