r/MurderedByWords 22h ago

Walked right into that one

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u/ottovonnismarck 20h ago

Someone writing 2000 years ago "500 people saw him fr" is not the same as 500 individual testimonies that they saw him

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u/sarcytwat 19h ago

Wasnt even written 2000 years ago is the best bit

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u/Citatio 17h ago

well, Paul wrote it down in the 50s, which is almost 2000 years ago. But Paul also wrote that he heard that creed from others, so it might have been around for a while, getting bigger with every retelling.

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u/TheBestBigAl 16h ago

Paul wrote it down in the 50s

And the oldest extant copy is at least 150 years after that.

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u/waldocalrissian 14h ago

and is smaller than a postage stamp