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Does the New Testament story of Jesus contain any elements of historical truth, or is it pure legend The author presents the "mythicist" view. He contends that the accounts of Jesus in the four canonical gospels not only contradict each other, but also contradict the earliest Christian documents.

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The central question this book addresses is: why do so many people swallow the doctrines of religion Following an attempt to analyze the nature of belief, it considers the Bible as a basis for religious belief and explores the conceptual difficulties in the New Testament view of humans.

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G.A. Wells has consistently taken a controversial position, arguing that very little is known about a historical figure named Jesus. This work focuses on the New Testament book, Acts of the Apostles, and investigates how much - or how little - we really know about Peter and Paul.

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Wells identifies influential mistakes about language embedded in the empiricist philosophical tradition of Locke, Russell and Ayer. He shows how these errors stimulated a religious backlash, in which faith became coupled with commonsense realism. He also covers behaviourism and magical thinking.