(June 25, 2017 at 11:21 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Paul has a history of contradicting Jesus without authorization.
This may be a non sequitor (and maybe ignorant on my part... but if so, so be it) but it has a slight link in my mind to what you're saying; what I don't get is why Protestants see the Bible as infallible when it was compiled by Catholics? Ie Catholics believe the pope is infallible, and all his choices, but Protestants do not, so if the Bible was compiled on papal authority as it were (which I don't know - hence my ignorance... ie I've heard K use the term 'proto-Catholics' so I don't know how different it was back then), why is it considered infallible by Protestants?
The tenuous connection to what you were saying is that given that the approved version of the Bible is somewhat arbitrary... it could have been anything... and since Protestants don't appear to have any reason to get behind a Catholic compiled Bible, Paul is just one bloke who managed to get himself selected to get into the Bible, but it could have been anyone. Sorry if that was a completely pointless thought dump, but I'm having trouble articulating for you (and myself) what my point is... but it's in there somewhere
