Quote:…32In Damascus the ethnarch under Aretas the king was guarding the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me, 33and I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and so escaped his hands.

2 Cor. 11

Quote:1) Authentic or Early Paul: 1 Thessalonians, Galatians, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Romans, Philippians, and Philemon (50s-60s A.D.)
2) Disputed Paul or Deutero-Pauline: 2 Thessalonians, Ephesians, Colossians (80-100 A.D.)
3) Pseudo–Paul or the Pastorals: 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus (80-100 A.D.)
4) Tendentious or Legendary Paul: Acts of the Apostles (90-130 A.D.)

Quote:Either way, this enterprise of writing letters in Paul’s name has been enormously influential, since Paul became such a towering figure of authority in the church.

(January 30, 2016 at 4:55 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Just as Paul had never heard of the great majority of the jesus narrative.  Paul himself gives the strong impression of what would later be deemed a docetic heretic in the narratives attributed to him.  Supposedly, Marcion had nothing but praise for the man....not that he'd ever met him, of course.

(January 30, 2016 at 4:55 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Just as Paul had never heard of the great majority of the jesus narrative.  Paul himself gives the strong impression of what would later be deemed a docetic heretic in the narratives attributed to him.  Supposedly, Marcion had nothing but praise for the man....not that he'd ever met him, of course.

(January 30, 2016 at 5:05 pm)Jehanne Wrote:

(January 30, 2016 at 4:55 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Just as Paul had never heard of the great majority of the jesus narrative.  Paul himself gives the strong impression of what would later be deemed a docetic heretic in the narratives attributed to him.  Supposedly, Marcion had nothing but praise for the man....not that he'd ever met him, of course.

Clement of Rome mentions him:

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/te...tfoot.html

Quote:Loisy maintains that the author of 1 Clement was a distinguished Roman elder who flourished 130-140 and that this Clement was named in the Shepherd of Hermas (Vision, 8:3), which is also to be dated to the mid second century. Notably, a writing is mentioned in 1 Clement 23:3 in which the challenge is quoted, "These things we did hear in the days of our fathers also, and behold we have grown old, and none of these things hath befallen us." Because this source document for 1 Clement must have been written when the hope of the imminent parousia was waning, and because 1 Clement itself must have dealt with the same issue, the document can scarcely be dated to the time of the first Christian generation. Other indications of lateness include the tradition in chapter 5 that Paul traveled to the extremities of the west (i.e., Spain) and the emphasis on the appointment of "bishops and deacons" (42:1-5). Most notably, there is stated to be "a rule of succession" for bishops and deacons who have "fallen asleep" (44:2). This suggests a second century date for 1 Clement.

(January 30, 2016 at 5:17 pm)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: According to the Bible Paul was the first character to preach about Jesus.  Paul created the Jesus character to sell his idea about resurrection and eternal life.  Everything people knew about Jesus they got from Paul.  The Gospel writers developed the Jesus character and showed why he was worthy of being worshiped.  Since life sucked at that time it was easy to gain converts, especially once they dropped the circumcision and communism requirements.  It wasn't a peer pressure religion and there was no expensive rituals or pilgrimages.  It was a religion for the common poor man that taught obedience to the status quo.