Tracy,
>The stories are varied throughout history. To be fair, one cannot solely rely on the accepted gospels as the only documentation of history.
Oh, I agree, but you can not dismiss them either; problem is that other documentation is so scarce... if I were a Conspiracy Theorists, I would say the Church destroyed all other documents.
"The five senses obstruct or deform the apprehension of reality."
Jorge L. Borges?
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
Donald Knuth, repeating C. A. R. Hoare
"To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely"
Jorge L. Borges