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The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar,

uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity.

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Hello everybody and welcome back to misquoting Jesus.

Today we're talking about Paul. Again, we saw last week that there are some disparities

between what Jesus and Paul said, and today we're exploring whether Paul accepted the

teachings of Jesus,

or if he created a theology that was entirely distinct from them. Before we get down to business,

though, Bart, how are you? How was the Galapagos? Well, the Galapagos is amazing. You know,

I always had this impression that nobody could possibly get there because so many people want to go there,

and it turned out not to be true. And what a lot of people wanted to do is the right thing to do,

really, is to do it off of a ship so you can go to various islands. We did a kind of a mixed

thing, partly ship, partly land. The people we went with, there was a young girl, very bright,

interesting girl, and we thought she might not want to be in a ship the whole time,, there was a young girl, a very bright, interesting girl, and we thought

she might not want to be in a ship the whole time, but it was a really, very nice combination of

stuff. It's quite an incredible place, as everybody says, but my previous knowledge of it was

from the origin of species. So, got to move in Darwin's world a little bit on my own. Wonderful.

So, yeah, how are you doing? Yeah, good. Thank you. Ticking along nicely, getting everything.

We've got a couple of weeks before I head out to visit my family in the UK, but I'm trying to

get all the little loose ends of my own work tied up so I don't have to worry about it or take work with

me. You're going to be on the Isle of Sky? Is that right? Yes. Yes. My parents live on the Isle of

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