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No offence intended, my friend. Thanks for the link of Philip R. Davies, as more and more scholars are now citing Jewish OT history as myth. Which is par for the course on early Christianity.
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I know I gave just a few extracts from Crotty's book his sources are ancient documentations, and archaeology. If you are unwilling to read, to know what going on, how can you get the facts!
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If you had read the discussion you would have found the citation for R. Crotty.[Robert Crotty (2017), The Christian Survivor: How Roman Christianity Defeated Its Early Competitors, ch. 2, p.25, Springer, Gateway East, Singapore]
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FAO Andrew Criddle
I will take a Stanford citation before I would touch a Christian apologist site such as Tertullian.org.
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God, Mithra, and ML! Mithras, the Persian, Roman, and Greek Sun God, has been depicted as a God for several centuries before a group of Gentile resurrected a supposedly Jewish man as their God and saviour.  Yet, scholar see Christianity as an adoption of Mithraism.  Perhaps the most persuasive case ...

The coming of Christianity to Britain Rome has always taken the centre stage in the western religion, yet, it boasts of preeminence of antiquity is mere propaganda, with no historicity to its claim or claims.  However, in Cymru/Wales, the tradition of our forefathers is best said in the words of th...

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Hi, Hope this helps Although I am not a fan of Saul/Paul, as, from the old school, I see him as the enemy of the followers of Jesus, liar, murderer and a false apostle (Acts 1:21). Paul tells us that he was a Jew born in Tarsus, was well-schooled as he studied under Gamaliel (Acts 22:30). Also, Paul...