http://www.egodeath.com/TheFabricatedPaul.htm
I think Detering is far closer to reality than your silly, pompous, holy horseshit, drippy.
Quote:I here summarize some of Detering's conclusions. Page numbers are for the English .pdf file.
Detering's book aims to provide a better explanation for NT Christian origins than the usual views regarding Paul. On page 50, Detering summarizes Loman's proposal in 1881:
"Christianity in its origin was nothing else than a Jewish-Messianic movement ... the figure of Jesus had never existed, but represented a symbolization and personification of thoughts that could only make full headway in the second century. A gnostic messianic community later appeared alongside the Jewish-Christian messianic community. In the period between 70 and 135 CE the two groups opposed one another with bitter animosity.
"Only in the middle of the second century did they achieve a reconciliation, in which the gnostic community had Paul as its representative and the Jewish-Christian community had Peter. The result of this process of reconciliation was the formation of the Roman Catholic Church. ... the letters of Paul are all inauthentic and represent the product of the newly-believing, gnostic-messianic community."
The Catholic church didn't create the NT books, but redacted them strategically to unite the Petrine Jewish-Christians camp with the Pauline Marcionites (Gentile Christian) camp, resulting in a durable church system. Paul was a reworked Simon the Magician. Simon/Paul had leprosy. Simon/Paul taught gnostic-type anti-cosmos transcendence of and freedom from 'the law' through grace -- such transcendence being 'lawlessness'.
I think Detering is far closer to reality than your silly, pompous, holy horseshit, drippy.
