[donmeaker]

Were they killed for a scam? Or were they also invented?

We just don’t have a lot of evidence. Peter’s corpse is not available to us, nor is that of Paul. Forensics are pretty much out, and Roman justice of the time is mostly not documented. How old is the oldest actual scripture document reporting the New Testament? As the distance increases from the time of the events it reports, it is less useful as evidence.

At least with Augustus or Tiberius we get some statues.

[donmeaker]

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/scriptorium/papyrus/texts/manuscripts.html

Depending on texts that date from AD 200 texts would be like having no documents of the American Revolution that were produced until 1950.

[Tainan]

Its ...Religion.....its based on FAITH.

For what its worth...I believe it.

[metmom]

We just don’t have a lot of evidence. Peter’s corpse is not available to us, nor is that of Paul. Forensics are pretty much out, and Roman justice of the time is mostly not documented. How old is the oldest actual scripture document reporting the New Testament? As the distance increases from the time of the events it reports, it is less useful as evidence.

Then all of history is suspect to you, is it not?

Prove George Washington lived and that he is not the product of some scam by forgers to create a pretend George Washington.

Or pick ANY historical figure.

For that matter prove YOU exist and are not some computer program posing as a human being.

I've never met someone in real life named donmeaker. All I see is a screen name and some posts.