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mountainman · 12-19-2010, 06:27 PM

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If you think the gospels were written decades after the alleged events then my advice to you is that you are not thinking skeptically enough.

It's not that I believe the gospels are that early. They may have been written on Irenaeus' back porch for all I know or in Constantine's basement.

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I just didn't want to make the age of the gospels an issue.

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But it seems I did. I hereby re-word that sentence to say, "But the rest of us must accept hearsay reports written many years after the alleged events."

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We prostrated ourselves on the ground and worshipped him.
We comprised eleven disciples.
He stretched forth his hand and caused us to stand.

NHC 6.1 (The Acts of Peter and the Twelve Apostles)

Surely this is the basis for the Neo character in the Matrix.

Possibly. The name of the "him" is Lithargoel. In TAOPATTA the matrix was a journey to the "City of Nine Gates" (see the Gita) wherein was to be found and owned "The Pearl of Great Price". Notably, although they travelled to the city gates, none of the Eleven skeptics entered the gates of the city, where Lithargoel, the son of a King, was a physician, in the model of Asclepius. He sent the "Eleven apostles" back to island city in the midst of the sea, called "Habitation and Endurance". Very fourth century Matrix like.

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