Quote:But its written in 55-60AD
That's the story but where is the evidence that this is the case?
Quote:2 Corinthians 11:32-33
New International Version (NIV)
32 In Damascus the governor under King Aretas had the city of the Damascenes guarded in order to arrest me. 33 But I was lowered in a basket from a window in the wall and slipped through his hands.
I've been through this before and not a single xtian has dared to refute it.
Aretas III, King of Nabatea, conquered Damascus c 84 BC and held it for a generation until the Roman army of Pompey the Great came along.
Aretas III had been a player in the dynastic battles of the Hasmonean kingdom of Judaea in the early first century backing one claimant or another.
Xtians assert, without a shred of evidence ( as is their custom), that the Aretas in "Paul" is Aretas IV who died in 40 AD, a few short years after attacking Herod Antipas and being chased away by the army of Lucius Vitellius, governor of Syria. There is no indication from any Roman or Jewish source that the Romans ever gave up control of Damascus which was, as the western terminus of the Silk Road, a very valuable piece of real estate.
Unlike a lot of xtian bullshit we can point to an actual historical circumstance where Aretas III did rule Damascus. That it happens to be in the first century BC is discomforting to xtians but who cares!