RE: Why are Paul's writings in the Bible?
October 2, 2023 at 8:02 am
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2023 at 8:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
It's the same problem that jesus had. Whatever real boy could have been the inspiration for the stories, the character in magic book, is a mess all the same. It's like looking for a historical Steve by reading a book about Joe. It's amazing how difficult it seems to be for people to parse the idea, but it's all over magic book old and new. There are characters in both books that were real people for certain, but the biblical characters bear no resemblance to the historical persons then, either. The kingdoms described were real, but the books fictionalize them for theological effect. The tactics and equipment mentioned were real, but displaced by centuries and put in the hands of herculean warrior kings.
Whatever the historicity of the characters places and events was, the story itself has a history of it's own, a path of development distinct from that. So you end up with people saying that paul was for sure historical, but the parts of magic book that tell us who paul was are..by the same scholars, believed to be completely fictional accounts. Perhaps the most crucial aspect of the character of paul, paul the convert, paul the super jew persecuting christians until he sees an apparition? That's a non thing. Whoever wrote pauls character made that shit up entirely for reasons that should be dead obvious to anyoneone here at af.
"I used to be like you" - they all start out....
Whatever the historicity of the characters places and events was, the story itself has a history of it's own, a path of development distinct from that. So you end up with people saying that paul was for sure historical, but the parts of magic book that tell us who paul was are..by the same scholars, believed to be completely fictional accounts. Perhaps the most crucial aspect of the character of paul, paul the convert, paul the super jew persecuting christians until he sees an apparition? That's a non thing. Whoever wrote pauls character made that shit up entirely for reasons that should be dead obvious to anyoneone here at af.
"I used to be like you" - they all start out....
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