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Gospel of John
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Jiang reads the Pilate story as a text that depicts Jewish priests forcing a reluctant Roman governor to execute Jesus.
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He argues this blame-shifting shows the Bible is not reliable as neutral history about who killed Jesus.
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Acts then introduces Paul as a persecutor of Christians whose conversion story is staged as a miracle on the Damascus road.
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"Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they..."
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"Okay, so do you understand what's going on, okay? The Bible claims the Jews killed Jesus, all right? So this shows us that the..."
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"Synagons and Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem...."
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"...you read, please? Okay, so this is from John, the Gospel of John."
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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