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@dj2becker said
Thought we had moved past the OP with all your new adaptations.

No. Just fleshing it out. And you don't have to accept any of the "Let's say, for the sake of arguments..." if you don't want to.

@dj2becker said
So everything he wrote down he witnessed first hand or not?

Take a look at the OP again.

@fmf said
No. Just fleshing it out. And you don't have to accept any of the "Let's say, for the sake of arguments..." if you don't want to.

Your strawman is falling apart it seems.

@dj2becker said
Your strawman is falling apart it seems.

I could name my account or my nom de plume after one of the Uzbeki man's supposed followers decades and decades ago, if that would help.

@fmf said
I could name my account or my nom de plume after one of the Uzbeki man's supposed followers decades and decades ago, if that would help.

Instead of doing your mental exercise your could just save us all time and prove that the gospel writers were not who they claimed to be and everything they wrote was a fabrication.

@dj2becker said
Instead of doing your mental exercise your could just save us all time and prove that the gospel writers were not who they claimed to be and everything they wrote was a fabrication.

I have no objection to you having whatever belief you want about the authorship of the the NT.

@dj2becker said
The difference of course is that the Bible is one of the most reliable historical texts and your thought experiment isn’t.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ...

@Kegge

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ...

Pace yourself Kegge. Pace yourself!
Don't over extend your intellectual powers too much in one sitting.

@fmf said
Imagine if I sat down now – in 2019 – and wrote a biography and religious manifesto based on folktales about the supposed events and statements during the life of some sort of mystic or holy man who'd lived in, say, Uzbekistan in the late 1970s... four decades ago.

Imagine if this long-dead man from this backwater of the Soviet empire had not written a single word and nothing ...[text shortened]... f a historical account of an Uzbeki man not even well know in his own time assuming he even existed?

That was good 😉

@sonship said
@Kegge

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ...

Pace yourself Kegge. Pace yourself!
Don't over extend your intellectual powers too much in one sitting.

Wait, do you mean it wasn't a joke?

@Kegge

Wait, do you mean it wasn't a joke?

Between the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles both written by physician disciple Luke, how many people do you think are recorded outside of the New Testament as to having actually lived?