Oscar Wilde who conflated two Salomes, and three Herods to write his play 'Salome' was rebuked by Remy de Gourmont. Wilde commented, "That poor Gourmont thinks he knows more than anybody else. What he told us was the truth of a professor at the Institute. I prefer the other truth, my own, which is that of a dream. Between the two truths, the falser is the truer."

Wilde loved to play with the Bible. "Creation began when you were born. It will end on the day you die.", he said to a young man.

Wilde asked Andre Gide, " Would you like me to tell you a secret?...but promise me not to tell it to anyone...Do you know why Christ did not love his mother?" After pausing, "It's because she was a virgin!"

Wilde said to William Butler Yeats, "I have been inventing a new Christian heresy. It seems that Christ recovered after the Crucifixion, and escaping from the tomb lived on for many years, the one man upon earth who knew the falsehood of Christianity. Once St. Paul visited his town and he alone in the carpenters' quarter did not go to hear him preach. Henceforth the other carpenters noticed that, for some unknown reason, he kept his hands covered."

In Wilde's version of the raising of Lazarus, Christ comes upon a young man weeping and asks why. The man replies, "Lord, I was dead and you raised me up. What else should I do but weep?" In another version told to Jean Lorrain, the resurrected Lazarus bitterly reproaches Christ for lying: "There is nothing in death, and he who is dead is dead indeed." Jesus puts his finger on his lips, "I know it, but don't tell them."

Despite a richly creative imagination, his divine gift, Oscar Wilde converted to Roman Catholicism on his deathbed.