Tennessee man holds strong opinions about poorly-documented 2,000 year-old events in the Middle-East
Bob Franklin, a 43 year-old mechanic from Nashville, Tennessee, has expressed an extremely strong and long-held conviction about events that occurred in the Middle-East some 2,000 years ago. He made the claims on Monday, in a statement concerning the life of a man named Jesus of Nazareth, who scholars believe lived in Judea at around the turn of the 1st century AD.
The overwhelming consensus in the historical community is that little can be said with any real certainty about Jesus' life due to a lack of reliable sources, yet Bob is undeterred. Despite possessing no recognised academic qualifications, nor speaking ancient Hebrew, Bob is seeking to single-handedly turn the world of 1st century Levantine scholarship on his head with his thesis "Jesus was the son of God". Indeed, according to Mr Franklin, the scarcity of real evidence for his claim is itself more reason to believe it. "You got to have some faith," exclaimed Bob in a flagrant disregard of the fundamentals of the historical method and indeed basic rational thought.
In addition to knowing that Jesus was the son of God who died for the sins of man, Bob has revealed an intimate knowledge of the minutiae of Jesus' life, such as the names of his 12 best friends, the exact circumstances concerning his birth and death, and his mother's sexual history. The thousands of years and thousands of miles separating the lives of Bob and Jesus apparently present no obstacle, and the semi-literate American father of three has built up a deep understanding of the Jewish man's life and beliefs. "If there's one thing I'm certain of in this dawg gawn [sic] world, it's that Jesus died for our sins," claimed Bob without any real justification, "and you should all be thankful."
The overwhelming consensus in the historical community is that little can be said with any real certainty about Jesus' life due to a lack of reliable sources, yet Bob is undeterred. Despite possessing no recognised academic qualifications, nor speaking ancient Hebrew, Bob is seeking to single-handedly turn the world of 1st century Levantine scholarship on his head with his thesis "Jesus was the son of God". Indeed, according to Mr Franklin, the scarcity of real evidence for his claim is itself more reason to believe it. "You got to have some faith," exclaimed Bob in a flagrant disregard of the fundamentals of the historical method and indeed basic rational thought.
In addition to knowing that Jesus was the son of God who died for the sins of man, Bob has revealed an intimate knowledge of the minutiae of Jesus' life, such as the names of his 12 best friends, the exact circumstances concerning his birth and death, and his mother's sexual history. The thousands of years and thousands of miles separating the lives of Bob and Jesus apparently present no obstacle, and the semi-literate American father of three has built up a deep understanding of the Jewish man's life and beliefs. "If there's one thing I'm certain of in this dawg gawn [sic] world, it's that Jesus died for our sins," claimed Bob without any real justification, "and you should all be thankful."
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