Paul's "persecution" of the early Christians?

[Jehanne]

GC,

You can not offer me, an atheist, any reason to believe that the New Testament is a credible souce of ancient history, much less a credible attestation for miraculous events. All the evidence points to regurgitated storytelling with subsequent embellishments.

Dawn

[Minimalist]

[Wyrd of Gawd]

[Godscreated]

While we all have our faults the only one being stupid on this thread is you.  You believe in an ancient ethnocentric Middle Eastern Jewish deity named Yahweh and in an imaginary Jewish zombie with the alias of Jesus who will save your soul and give you eternal life.  You're nuts. 

Prove I'm wrong in my knowledge of God and that my salvation through Jesus is not real.

The talking snake or serpent in the story was the Egyptian pharaoh. Noah's flood is a war story, most likely about the Egyptian invasion and conquest of the Levant area.  Moses' exodus is about the Egyptian withdrawal from the Levant.  The biblical God character was simply the series of crazy men who ruled the dominant empire in the ancient Middle East and kept the Hebrews under their thumbs.  The last one bit the dust around 530 B.C. with the collapse of the Babylonian Empire.  He is never, ever, coming back. 

You have enlightened the biblical scholars about these events and how about the history scholars I'm sure they would rewrite history with this new found evidence.

The Saul/Paul created the Jesus character as a way to sell his resurrection religion.  He even said that it was bull shit.  Later writers wrote prequels (the Gospels) to show why the Jesus character should be worshiped as a deity.  They also included some political acts by the three main rebels and wrote them as religious stories involving Paul's Jesus character. 

You ever consider writing mystery novels, because no one would be able to figure out what you were doing, it would be a true mystery. 

While there may have been various scraps of manuscripts floating around the area the Bible didn't exist in any form until a committee of story tellers, writers, and artists produced three master copies in Latin in the 690s to counter Uthman's Koran from the 640s.  Christianity existed from the First Century but it didn't have an unified written fairy tale until the 690s.

We have copies of a book that dates back to 300 BC and they show that hardly a word was changed even into modern times. We accept that the writings of Shakespeare, that is the copies are the same as written by someone that is said to be Shakespeare, but there's no proof that a man named Shakespeare wrote those works.

And despite all of the bull shit you can throw at the wall you simply can't produce an original legitimate Bible written before the 690s.  

And remember, even the Bible says that it's just a fairy tale written for entertainment purposes and that people shouldn't believe in Jewish fairy tales.

 The books of the Bible were written long before they were put together as one book and the Torah was put together long before Jesus time. The disciples preached from the Torah and the Prophets because they tell of Jesus, something I'm sure you have missed. You need to prove the bold statement (bold by me). if you can't bring these proofs including the bold about Paul then we have nothing else to talk about.

GC

[Jehanne]

[Wyrd of Gawd]

[Godscreated]

[Jehanne]

GC,

Do you believe that the talking dog was a Great Dane?

[Cyberman]

R'uh r'oh!

[Wyrd of Gawd]