Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels

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The point of the red / Purple thing is not its significance, it's it's simplicity. An explanation with turn "red is not purple" into "red IS purple" is much harder to to accept than one which explains Timothy s letter as context based or misunderstood.

The problem you'll face there is that christian apologetics is the enemy of language, and as deeply wrong as "red and purple are the same color," sounds to you, it'll sound perfectly fine to an apologist or those willing to accept the word of one, simply because to them, words mean whatever they need to in order to preserve the bible.

This is just another one of those things that's only convincing if you let your views be shaped by the evidence, rather than shaping the evidence to fit your views.