(February 5, 2015 at 11:28 am)Faith No More Wrote:(February 5, 2015 at 10:41 am)SteveII Wrote: I would argue that if premise 1 and 2 are true, it is far more probable that any similarity to myths is coincidence.
Coincidence? Are you saying god is a plagiarist?
You do realize that the people that could actually read and write back then were the elite that usually had access to libraries of material so the authors having access to previous myths is not only plausible but probable?
So you are saying Galilean fisherman probably had access to libraries (in their language) in order to tell Paul some lies. Or are you saying Paul was the mastermind and got the disciples to change their stories 20 years later to match something he concocted from these scrolls he may or may not have had access to?