I think I heard Licona mention the "explosion" of Christianity in the 1st century. I wish Carrier had a chance to rebut that because in Carrier's book "Not the Impossible Faith" he completely destroys this modern apologist notion that there was an explosive growth of Christianity.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
