(October 1, 2023 at 8:02 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:(October 1, 2023 at 7:45 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: What evidence is there that a "Paul" was a prominent leader among "First Century Christians" ?
The Jerusalem Church was destroyed in 70 CE, Shimon (the Lord's other brother) took the remnant over the Jordan, and only Paul's network of Gentile churches was left standing to write the histories and define orthodoxy.
And the evidence for that is what ?
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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