Christians - What would you do if it were discovered Jesus never existed?

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Entire books have been written about the various interpolations which have been written into "paul."  Here, Robert Price reviews one such work

http://www.robertmprice.mindvendor.com/r...ations.htm

We may hope that Walker's lucid and convincing work will hasten the day when most scholars will see that the Pauline Corpus presents a challenge exactly analogous to that of the historical Jesus: to understand the relevant texts, we have to perform diachronic analysis, deconstructing the Pauline tradition as we have learned to do with the Gospel tradition. We need to learn to chart the flow of the history of the Pauline tradition as Bultmann traced that of the Synoptic tradition. Only then will Pauline scholars escape their current entrapment in the mire of debates over "the center of Pauline theology" and drop the futile scholastic quest to harmonize the disparate texts of the Pauline epistles.

And before the xristards start shrieking about Price remember the book he is reviewing was written by one of you fuckers.

William  O.  Walker, Jr. , Ph.D.
Jennie Farris Railey King Professor Emeritus of Religion
Education
 

B.A. Austin College (1953)
Major in Religion; minors in English and Greek
 
B.D. (changed to M.Div. 1971), The Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary (1957)
Concentration in New Testament
 
M.A. The University of Texas (1958)
Major in Classics
 
Ph.D. Duke University (1962)
Major in Religion/Biblical Studies; minor in Ancient Languages and Literatures