RE: Paul's "persecution" of the early Christians?
February 10, 2018 at 8:34 am
(This post was last modified: February 10, 2018 at 8:44 am by Jehanne.)
(February 10, 2018 at 2:58 am)Godscreated Wrote:(February 9, 2018 at 9:55 am)Jehanne Wrote: What mistake did I make, and please be specific.
That Jesus was arrested by Roman guards and that He was arrested in the Temple.
GC
It's a logical inference. Do you honestly think that Jesus could have gone to the Temp and "cleansed" it with no reaction from the Romans?? By the way, how many times do you believe that Jesus "cleansed" the Temple? Once or twice?
(February 10, 2018 at 3:22 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: Meh, who cares. God is not real, whether or not Paul did this or that doesn't really matter to me.
It does matter to others, which is why I am bringing it up. Paul (the early one), should not, as an ancient witness, be trusted.
I remember in my US History to 1877 class (also took the second one, US History from 1877 until the present) that my Professor, during one lecture, told the class that historians regard diaries (especially, those from the Civil War) as "being worthless". I remember sitting in the giant lecture hall with 400 or so other students and being really shocked by his statement. But, he went to give the reasons for that, and then it began to make sense to me.
When someone writes a diary, that person writes their diary with the intent and expectation that someone, someday, will read what they had written! Seems so obvious, but the connotations are equally clear when you think about it. People who write diaries are typically not dispassionate observers to history; in other words, they can and often do have a "ax to grind", and so, their perspective is often tainted to begin with, and so, historians rightly and simply discard much of what such persons say in their writings. Instead, historians like dispassionate observers, people who are just there who simply witness what was going on and write about it.
Paul was not such an individual. He was a religious zealot who suffered from some form of temporal lobe epilepsy who asserted unlikely claims (see my OP), and as such, little of what he claims has any historical credibility, hence, his list of witnesses in 1st Corinthians 13 is not to be trusted, especially, "the 500" who Paul likely either made-up or took from an embellished source.
