Paul's 500 witnesses.

[Jehanne]

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Bart Ehrman is defending his beloved Paul by burying the truth. But he knows the claim of 500 witnesses is absurd. Over seventy pages later, he gets around to discussing them: “it does need to be pointed out that Paul is the only one who mentions this event, and if it really happened – or even if it was widely believed to have happened – it is hard to explain why it never made its way into the Gospels, especially those later Gospels such as Luke and John that were so intent on ‘proving’ that Jesus was physically raised from the dead” (p. 202). He never attempts to explain why Paul uttered such a falsehood, as it is clearly a deliberate lie.

Virtually all New Testament scholars share Bart Ehrman’s view of Paul’s 500 witnesses. No one believes it. But virtually no one talks about it, either – especially its implication about Paul.

Not to mention that none of these supposed witnesses ever said anything to anyone about their experience, let alone write a single letter or document about it.  Remember, Jerusalem at that time would typically have a maximum population of only 25,000, which makes 500 people in one location a helluva lot of people in one spot!