(July 24, 2015 at 6:44 pm)Nestor Wrote:(July 24, 2015 at 6:40 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: That works!They're just fictional characters that were dreamed up (and inserted into Josephus) to lend credibility to the Church's authority, which it of course derived from Peter rabbit!
Except for a couple of plot threads that still seem loose? Why would Paul convert to Christianity before the book was finished? Or James?
Oh, of course. Well then another question: It makes sense that the production crew was all killed off once the book was out, but SOMEBODY knew the that the whole thing was a scam...yet Christians were martyred in large numbers for the first couple of hundred years so how did they escape getting caught up in the pogrom? And it wasn't until the fourth century until the book really took off in the Roman Empire, so none of the original perpetrators made a dime off of this. So, what was their motivation?