Another point of contention is my quick dismissal of the use of hypothetical sources, which obviously would rankle many in the field since without them little can be said about Jesus. As is to be expected, McGrath was unable to explain why we should trust such sources, and why we should trust, say, his own hypothetical sources, instead of a conservative Christian’s, or a fringe mythicist’s. McGrath also focuses on the ‘Jesus crucified by sky demons’ issue, apparently unaware that my reading is certainly plausible, so much so that even some Christian scholars have endorsed it, and that it is not vitally important for the case for mythicism, and not needed for my case for agnosticism (keep in mind that scholars like McGrath so often ignore that very reasonable ‘middle ground’). There is much more to be said for the Celestial Jesus theory, and I do say it, in the book. There is the belief, for example, of pre-Christian Jews in celestial messiahs (some of whom sound very much like Philo’s Logos and Paul’s Christ), which even Ehrman now acknowledges, though McGrath seems unaware of it.