Montezuma/Peter and Cortés/Paul and Guatemoc/James

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Giuseppe
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Montezuma/Peter and Cortés/Paul and Guatemoc/James

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No, it is a straight reading of Gal 1:19 and the mythicists' efforts to see interpolations for these two passages are rather very far-fetched.
"called Christ" is interpolated in Josephus but Gal 1:19 is genuine in Paul. James is a mere useful witness of the Greatness of Paul the Apostle who deals with Peter (the founder of the cult) as his peer. Think about Cortés who met Montezuma masked as the god Quetzalcoatl: any other Aztech of the court of Montezuma couldn't be on the same level of Cortés
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Guatemoc was an Aztech prince in the court of Montezuma who didn't like from the first day the strange alliance between his emperor Montezuma and the spaniard Cortés.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuauht%C3%A9moc

James the brother of the Lord is seen by historicists as a kind of Guatemoc, insofar he didn't like the Peter's strange tolerance of the false apostle Paul in Jerusalem that day.

But I think that it's rather clear that the "Guatemoc", in the case of Paul, was not James the brother of Lord, but the "other apostles", since only the presence in Jerusalem of at least one of them would have raised suspicions among the Galatians about the legitimacy of the Pauline claim to true apostleship.

James becomes so only a humble "carnal" witness of the Greatness of the Colossal Amazing Apostle Paul who alone mets Peter and talks with him as if he was his peer.

Precisely the Carrier's point in OHJ.
Nihil enim in speciem fallacius est quam prava religio. -Liv. xxxix. 16.
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