(July 29, 2018 at 10:52 am)Wololo Wrote:(July 26, 2018 at 11:18 pm)JairCrawford Wrote: If we look at the Pauline epistles and compare them with Marcions teachings we inevitably run into several differences in theology.
No shit Sherlock.
That's what you get when 1,600 years of rewriting of various different original arguments happens, first to try and wrangle them into a single narrative largely of a single purpose (a bad failure I may add), and then secondly to serve whichever entity or political ideology was then currently in power.
Quote:The point is that differences in theology cause significant problems with the theory that Marcion wrote the Pauline epistles.
No it really does not. When you consider how many times the "pauline" epistles, along with the rest of the bible, have been rewritten and to what purpose they were so altered every time, you can easily see the possibility that Marcion was the original author. Your problem is in assuming that the bible is a static document, when all the evidence proves that it is not.
I realize it's not static. But to my knowledge the Pauline epistles seem to be the least covered area of the Bible when it has come to redaction criticism and in order to bolster such a hypothesis, we would really need to analyze the Pauline writings to look for the places where said redaction most likely occurred. If the hypothesis is true, and if what Justyn Martyr said about Marcion is also true and not baseless slander, then we are looking at some very heavy redacting in the Pauline epistles.
