RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
August 30, 2020 at 2:10 pm
(August 30, 2020 at 2:03 pm)Grandizer Wrote:(August 30, 2020 at 1:11 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: And how is the Dutch theologian Van Manen not part of this specific academia?
Was referring to the author of the passage in screenshot, not to van Manen. van Manen's view on this matter is not shared by any present NT scholar I'm aware of. Even Richard Carrier acknowledges that Paul more likely than not existed and wrote some of the Epistles later to be incorporated in the NT.
I don't care who disagrees, I simply pointed to the fact that there is discussion about Paul, I am not claiming who is right or wrong - that's your false conclusion because you don't read what I actually write.
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"
