Neville argues that Paul, despite the vivid and specific trials recounted in Acts and his own letters — imprisonment, shipwreck, and trial before King Agrippa — is not named in any surviving non-biblical source from the 1st century, even though other events of that era were recorded. He uses this absence to support his teaching that Paul, like Jesus, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, represents an eternal spiritual state that unfolds in every person, rather than a historical individual.