 to wipe out the core of historical facts you know the game of telephone stuff gets added well it takes more than two generations for that to happen well the entire new testament was written within one generation of the death of jesus that's 40 years so the new testament is well protected as well as that includes this tradition that saint paul's talking about from first corinthians and these are eyewitnesses saint paul says in first corinthians 15 this appearance to the 500 people at one time