It is hilarious how you make up rules that are perfectly suited to your ideology, Bernard.Bernard Muller wrote: ↑Thu May 06, 2021 3:37 pm to Peter Kirby,Not any name, just common name then such as James or Jesus or John.You seem to be saying that it is a general rule that one would never introduce an incidental character with no more information than a name.
Cordially, Bernard
You can try to deny that it is so, but you and I both know that you will not survive that struggle without losing a limb or two LOL
That leaves only one very burning question though: regardless of your little rule being true or not, and Needless to say that it undoubtedly applies perfectly to the NT - WHY is this so?
Why, Bernard, is this little rule there? Do you have an explanation for its existence?
1. Do you have a reason for it being applied not to, say, Peter or Mary?
2. And was Jesus a common name then?