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This New AI-Powered App Lets Users Chat With Jesus, Mary, The Apostles — And Even Satan
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Chatting with fictional characters via AI is nothing new.
Jesus very probably did exist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historical_Jesus
I don't know if the historicity of any of the other figures listed has been established. I mean, Jesus had a mother, for example, but I don't know if there's any reason to believe that she was anything like Mary as the Bible describes her.
I'd guess that most of the Biblical figures with established historical existence are gonna be major figures like Pontius Pilate.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biblical_figures_identified_in_extra-biblical_sources
Some of the apocryphal gospels seem really embarrassed about the idea of Mary being a commoner/spinning clothes for money.
There are very old rumors about Jesus being the son of a Roman soldier who raped Mary.
There’s probably something we can peer at, through a glass darkly, about her somewhere there.
"Promised me all the gold I could eat"
the roman's name (panthera) is a pun on virgin (parthena), according to an unreliable scholar i met