Originally Posted by antlers
Jesus’ most devout first century followers never owned ‘the Bible’, and never read ‘the Bible’...because there was no ‘the Bible’ to be had or read. There was no ‘the Bible’ until the fourth century.
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True, the illiterate relied on hand me down oral account..the question is how much truth and accuracy did such tales maintain when passed along?.. ie: how much fact vs fiction?
Wrong. The most devout first century followers of Jesus that I’m referring to relied upon what they had seen and heard with their own eyes and ears. They witnessed His miracles, they heard His teachings, and they watched Him die. And then, *most importantly*, they saw Him alive afterwards. Some even had breakfast with Him on the beach afterwards.

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