Originally posted by rogue06
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Originally posted by rogue06
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So, once again, where did I write that I doubted the existence of Paul? Or is all this another example of your faulty memory?
Originally posted by rogue06
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Concerning the names of the disciples I reminded of the scene in The Life of Brian where Brian falls on to the boring prophet and knocks him into a large urn. To avoid attracting the attention of the Romans he starts preaching. After two bad starts with the birds and the flowers, he begins his story about the man with two servants. When asked for their names by the group listening to him, he initially dismisses their question but when they challenge him tells them the servants were called Simon and Adrian.
I would also add that certain of these Christian texts contain elements of narrative fiction. You forget that people then, as now, like a good story [which is so amusingly demonstrated in that scene]. Hence all those [now deemed Apocryphal] Christian texts.
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