Evidence: The Gathering

[pocaracas]

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So Randy... you got us reading some of Ehrman's work...
Here's where it leads:
http://www.antiochian.org/life_of_thekla


And the story goes on and on...
And it seems many people took it to heart, at the time... a woman's tale. But it was a fabrication... and yet... people accepted that tale for centuries.
Parallel that with the tale of women finding an empty tomb... and then we must ask: tales of women in positions of some relative power existed and were accepted... why should your tale of women be considered a legitimate account of real events?

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abaris expects me to be knowledgable about Charles Lemagne; you want me to comment on St. Thecla.

I'm flattered, but you guys are asking a lot, don't ya think?

So, you think Thecla is legendary? What is your basis for rejecting the account above as true?

Hehe.... we're expecting your 10 years of catholic apologetics to have worked their magic!

Why reject that account? Because Ehrman says in his book "Lost Christianities" that this account was fabricated and the person who fabricated it confessed to have done so, as indicated by Tertullian:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Paul_and_Thecla

It is attested no later than Tertullian, De baptismo 17:5 (c 190), who tells a presbyter from Asia wrote the History of Paul and Thecla, and was deposed by John the Apostle after confessing the forgery.

Do you have any basis for accepting it as legitimate?