theory was laid permanently to rest and never again gained the consensus of scholarship. Let us summarize some of the main arguments used by the Christians in refuting this theory: 1. The obvious sincerity of the disciples is evident in their suffering and dying for what they believed. The Christian thinkers here picked up Eusebius’s argument. To charge the disciples with a cheap hoax flies in the face of their all too apparent sincerity. It is impossible to deny that the disciples honestly believed
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