RE: The Jesus story has details that is most definitely made up i just realized!!!
September 20, 2019 at 10:54 pm
(September 20, 2019 at 10:03 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Paul, in the 7 epistles that are undisputed as having been written by him, refers to some actions of the historical Jesus -- namely, his last meal,
What Paul is talking about is a custom of "Lord's Supper". Paul claims that Lord told him about this custom, he thinks no one would know any of this if he didn't share what his Lord whispered to his ear. Yet Paul is riffing off motifs from other places, like in Genesis 14:18 where priest-king Melchizedek, like Christ, also takes bread and wine and offers a blessing. Also by Paul's time, communion rituals involving bread and a cup of wine or water had long been a staple feature of the pagan mystery faiths found throughout the Mediterranean world.
Paul was very aware of this, so what does he do? He simply calls other regions that do this "fakes" 1 Corinthians 10:21 "You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot have a part in both the Lord's table and the table of demons."
This is far from the only thing that Paul rips-off, because for starters the honorary title of the cult gods in the mysteries was Kyrios, "Lord" - the exact same word used in the NT for Jesus.
The thing is that Paul bluntly admits that he's making up Jesus himself by looking into the scriptures and not even talking to other people (like witnesses). See it for yourself:
Galatians 1:11-12 I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
Galatians 1:15-16 But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles, my immediate response was not to consult any human being.
Considering that Paul's writings date before the gospels, writer of Mark reverse-engineered a cosmic savior deity from Paul into a flesh-and-blood man on earth doing a sloppy job.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
