RE: Why are Paul's writings in the Bible?
October 2, 2023 at 6:18 pm
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2023 at 6:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Pretty much. Just to be thorough, the best criticism of the mythicist position is not that it's wrong or inaccurate, but that it's non novel even if true. Guys like carrier aren't saying anything that biblical criticism hadn't already worked out - they're just using a set of terms different than the carefully curated bits that send nutbars here talking about pauls authentic letters as though they have a copy of the mans diary. The fact is, the most historically accurate and historically important detail about paul in all of the works that have ever been attributed to him by anyone might be the placement of a large mole somewhere specific on his body - but unless that mole did fucking miracles, it wasn't included.
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