When Paine opens up his third chapter with the statement that he does not mean to write in disrespect of Jesus Christ, it is obvious that he truly believes that the man, Jesus Christ, was a virtuous, moral, and benevolent man. ... He claims that the first four books by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John don't even provide a history of Christ, but only detached anecdotes of him. It appears from these books, that the whole time of his being a preacher was not more than eighteen months; and it was only during this short time that those men became acquainted with him. ... In an interesting twist o...

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Also, the soldier who remains loyal to Beowulf bears the name Wiglaf, and when Beowulf dies, he is responsible to carry on the legend of Beowulf so that his story will never cease to be told by bards and skofs and now in present time by books. This same responsibility is delegated to Christ's disciples when he died on the cross, and their duty was to "go into all the world and preach the good news of Christ" which is later written into the chapters of the Bible. ...

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