Jesus had schizophrenia and paul had temporal lobe seizures

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Kind of, there is good reason to think paul was real

What might that be?

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Kind of, there is good reason to think paul was real

Paul never existed

And just who was Paul escaping from? According to Paul's "own" testimony (2 Corinthians 11.32,33) it was "the governor under Aretas the king". Aretas IV was the Nabataean monarch who ruled a vast area from his capital of Petra, though Paul gives no explanation as to why Aretas was out to get him.

Oddly, though, Aretas III ruled Damascus between 84 and 64 BC. Pompey the Great overran the city and other than the jesus freak horseshit of "Paul" there is no hint that the Romans ever ceded control of that particularly valuable piece of real estate to anyone...certainly not the King of Nabatea which was a long fucking way from Damascus.



Damascus was traditionally part of the Decapolis - a collection of Greco-Roman towns which differed from their semitic-based neighbors and were granted a degree of autonomy under the governorship of Syria.