(November 18, 2021 at 7:37 pm)Oldandeasilyconfused Wrote:(November 18, 2021 at 6:58 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: And yet Paul was a megalomaniac narcissist of the first water and wrote his Epistles in the first person.
Boru
Yeah, after having hallucinations.
That god spoke to Saul on the road to Damascus is a basic tenet of Christianity. Dude falls off his horse and later announces that god has spoken directly to him. Instead of at least making him go and lie down for a bit, that claim is tacitly accepted from then, to this day.
Were there no 'heretics' who seriously questioned*** Saul's claims?
Along with Joan D'Arc I've long thought Paul was suffering from a mental illness such as schizophrenia or epilepsy. As far as I can tell, the bunch of not-very-bright-illiterates who believed that shit were about as gullible as the more extreme literalists today. EG Ray Comfort, Ken Ham, Little Kirky Cameron and those who hang on their every word. .
I wonder if some of the hallucinations could not have been due to having ate the wrong type of wild mushrooms?
