(December 10, 2017 at 9:31 pm)JairCrawford Wrote:(December 10, 2017 at 8:57 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: Just out of curiosity, do you put more credence in the red letters than elsewhere in the NT?
Do you consider letters that were written by Paul to various churches to be the Word of God?
It just seems that the red letters alone ought to be considered so, if anything; it is a stretch to throw a bunch of letters from Paul into "the Word of God." Those are the words of Paul, aren't they? Is Paul God?
Well, yes and no. I believe the letters from Paul to be Inspired, and great spiritual meaning can be gained from them, but the red letters are directly from Jesus, so they are of a higher priority.
And yet, over a century after this "paul" guy supposedly wrote them we have an extensive work of a xtian writer, Justin, written to Emperor Antoninus Pius c 160 AD and guess what? He doesn't seem to know jack-shit about this "paul" guy. Never mentions him. Although he does know about the alleged arch-heretic Marcion. Oddly, xtian writers like Tertullian tell us that it was Marcion who was the first to produce a canon of alleged scripture which included 10 of these pauline epistles and the so-called "Gospel of the Lord" which turns out to be a large chuck of "Luke."
Odd, eh?
