RE: Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?
September 13, 2017 at 2:40 pm
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2017 at 2:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You must realize that, allowing for a moment the fiction of Paul - the act of "going up around there and teaching people" is what would have started christianity? How can we fail to appreciate a situation in which christianity had not yet been codified? What would the purpose of "Pauls", lol, "letters"...... be other than to effect such codification?
If Paul was teaching, and if Pual was acting as an arbitrator of accuracy in dogma...and if pauls are the works which survived and upon which christianity became based..........'
Then had some other person been teaching some other thing to some other group you could not xpect that the wheels of "history" would have yielded the same result. The centuries of rooting out heresy...on it's face, puts the lie to any such conjecture. As points of fact, other people were teaching other things to other groups of people. This is precisely what -necessitated- the pogroms in the first place.
What -you- believe about Paul and christianity is incoherent and self defeating.
If Paul was teaching, and if Pual was acting as an arbitrator of accuracy in dogma...and if pauls are the works which survived and upon which christianity became based..........'
Then had some other person been teaching some other thing to some other group you could not xpect that the wheels of "history" would have yielded the same result. The centuries of rooting out heresy...on it's face, puts the lie to any such conjecture. As points of fact, other people were teaching other things to other groups of people. This is precisely what -necessitated- the pogroms in the first place.
What -you- believe about Paul and christianity is incoherent and self defeating.
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