(October 30, 2015 at 9:53 am)Drich Wrote:(October 29, 2015 at 10:38 pm)Irrational Wrote: Ok, suppose it's true that he was beheaded (Hard to tell if this was true or not), what exactly is special about that again? If he had schizophrenia and truly believed his views (even though they're not true), he would've still let himself be executed.
Lots of people out there who are ready to die for all sorts of beliefs. This isn't something exclusive to Christians.
Again death was simply the end result. Paul spent a large part of his ministry in jail, recovering from beatings, stonings, public caning, ect.
http://members.tripod.com/apostle_india/id2.html I cant vet the website but the content seems to be a cut and paste from the bible
1. He may have exaggerated.
2. He may have been a masochist.
