(January 22, 2019 at 3:38 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: You did not have the goods you claimed to possess, and possession of those goods....which you don't have, would not speak to the article of contention to which they were leveraged.
You have folklore. Not firsthand accounts. The specific bit of folklore you're referring to concerns the formation of a movement - not the historic status of life of any jesus or christ (or even the historical status of the narrative participants.."paul"..and "james"...).
Pauls writing of his encounters with the disciples, and Jesus's brother James is not folklore, it's a first hand account.
This is the definition of folklore:
folk·lore
/ˈfōklôr/Submit
noun
the traditional beliefs, customs, and stories of a community, passed through the generations by word of mouth..
This is not a folklore, it's from his own letters, writings of his own encounters with them, as well as the disputes he had with them.
first·hand
/ˌfərstˈhand/Submit
adjective & adverb
adjective: first-hand; adverb: first-hand
(of information or experience) from the original source or personal experience; direct.
You can keep repeating that it's folklore till you're blue in the face, but it doesn't even pass the basic definition of folklore, while it does constitute as first hand, by definition.
