(December 8, 2022 at 6:01 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(December 8, 2022 at 5:35 pm)Lek Wrote: Paul, who wrote a majority of the NT was a pharisee. You don't get more mainstream than that.
You said, ‘…and most of the NT writers…’ (emphasis added). And Paul was no longer a Pharisee when he wrote his letters.
Boru
That's because he followed Jesus and the "real" Jews then labeled him as fringe as they probably labeled the other Jewish NT writers. Jesus was himself Jewish as it gets.