Paul's "persecution" of the early Christians?

[Amarok]

 It is a literal tree, why would God refer to himself as a tree when He walked with them daily.

 John 18:10 "Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck  the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear." Again and as expected you do not know what is in the Bible, so anything you say about it and I mean anything can't be trusted one bit.

 You are wrong about the Bible being a fairy tale, but all the Bibles I'm aware of do present the same stories more or less the same. However a paraphrased Bible is not translated from the oldest and best transcripts, they are written from the existing translations to make reading easier. Well of coarse they do id they were written in the oldest English few would be able to understand what they are reading. The NASB is translated out of the oldest and best text we have, most if not all comes from the Hebrew and Greek and they used the Latin too, this combination gives use the best chance at an accurate translation. Your lack of Biblical knowledge just makes conversations with you so hard, that and your arrogant nature.  

  GC

Here's a list of extant manuscripts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ne...ent_papyri

Many of them are NOT early!

Or in good shape or are anything other then copies of copies