(September 13, 2017 at 9:46 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(September 13, 2017 at 9:26 am)TheBeardedDude Wrote: Other people who wrote about Jesus...long after Jesus supposedly lived. There are no contemporary accounts. So while there are many people who believed the same things as Paul and/or believed Paul, that doesn't corroborate the claims coming from Paul's head. So no, there is no more reason to believe Saul of Tarsus than Joseph Smith, and yet some do choose to believe one over the other (special pleading).
That sounds like a claim, in need of support.
It's a response to a claim. Pay attention and try to keep up.
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