(September 28, 2016 at 3:09 am)Aractus Wrote:(September 28, 2016 at 1:28 am)Firefighter01 Wrote: Um, no churches or synagogues found from that period in Corinth? Not even a meeting place near fountain for Paul?
I don't know what Min's going on about (Corinth was rebuilt by Julius Caesar in the 40's AD). But again you're showing your clear lack of knowledge - Christians met in houses, not "churches" at that time. Even the Jerusalem Council was probably held in Peter's house.
Thanks for replying to this one, Danny. I had missed it.
Acts seems to be a much later work designed to rehabilitate "paul" from his Marcionite beginnings. It soothes over "paul's" anti-jewish tendencies which devolved from Marcionism and tries to pretend that everything was all hugs and smiles.....which brings me back to my comment about Celsus detailing the intense rivalries between the various xtian sects. Again it is a subject worth studying.
If you had absorbed anything from the archaeology of Corinth lesson it should have been that far from being a thriving city Corinth prior to Vespasian's re-founding of the place was a flop. Caesar had very little time in 44 to rebuild anything as he was murdered on 3-15-44 BC.
The notion that mid-first century Corinth was any sort of going concern is a much later xtian fantasy. And while I agree that handfuls of xtians would have met in private houses we are supposed to believe that there was a thriving "jewish community" in Corinth with synagogues. Yet, there is no evidence. In fact, the earliest indication of a synagogue in Corinth is a 5th century lintel from a doorway.
So, no, FF. I think your paul stories are total bullshit invented later and in many ways mimic the popular Greek romances of the day.
