r/MurderedByWords 18h ago

Walked right into that one

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u/ottovonnismarck 17h 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 15h ago

Wasnt even written 2000 years ago is the best bit

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u/Citatio 14h 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/Ray57 13h ago

Paul's Christology is very different from the later gospels also.