Apollonius
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A new religio-philosophical movement has to present the genesis of his existence as it were. As for the gospel accounts, these were written down long after the events they claim to have witnessed, and as with all such cases in general the accounts were told and retold, first by word of mouth and then by written documents. As the story progressed in terms of taking on new elements no doubt the older accounts were then gathered and destroyed by the early Church fathers in an effort to present the accounts as being original rather than having grown out of a larger body of earlier traditions. Likewise, the gospel accounts were drawn from various 'mystery religions' among the Greco-Roman peoples and those of the Levant, thus the Church fathers all the more seen the need to hide the fact of their own crafty handiwork.
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