RE: Is Accepting Christian Evidence Special Pleading?
September 13, 2017 at 4:17 pm
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2017 at 4:23 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 13, 2017 at 3:19 pm)SteveII Wrote: I have no problem with Paul's function being to codify Christian living and being a very important figure in the early church. That in no way implies he made it up or he does not back up his reasoning at every step.Whether he made it up is moot point. You're a loon who thinks this shit really happened..so there's no point in arguing with you on that count.
In addition, you are failing to distinguish the content of the epistles to those of the gospels. As far as the basics of Christ and his teachings, that was around for 20 active years before he started writing (15 chapters of Acts). The content of the gospels (although not yet written as we know them) were known and is easily sufficient for the first generation that actually experienced the events described (or knew those that did). As time passed, it became necessary for someone such a Paul to get at leas the application part down so that those new converts in far away places, who would never meet an apostle, had some guidance.
If not Paul, somebody would have had to. Would Christianity have been different? That is not apparent. We do not know if Paul reasoned out everything himself or if his years of training supplied the basic structure.
Regardless of whether he "made it up" or marketed a popular product- it is his version of christianity which you recognize as christianity today. This is precisely what you're hedging with this "christianity, but not as we know it" song and dance.
Mormonism is christianity, just not as you know it. Do you extend the christian umbrella to them, as well?
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