RE: Why are Paul's writings in the Bible?
October 4, 2023 at 1:01 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2023 at 1:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There's no evidence that any paul was anyone of significant importance. There is only the character of paul in magic book, which not even the consensus thinks is the historic person of paul. The consensus doesn't even think that authentic paul was the historic person of paul.
"The arguments that mythicists are known to make" is just a dry recounting of facts acknowledged even by the consensus. It's a bridge too far, for many of them, to simply say that paul is a literary, rather than historical, person. They know all of this, and still think, for whatever reason or none, that there was some real boy lost to history. Even mythicists like carrier tend to think this about paul (his reason being pretty cut and dry, relying on a historical paul to spread a mythological jesus).
Personally, I look over all of this and realize that all of these people, even the mythicists, would likely contend that the nigerian prince is real, and that this is the most parsimonious explanation for his emails. He tells embarrassing stories about himself. Somebody had to write them. How are we to explain all the money changing hands if there were no nigerian prince? Why would anyone lie about a nigerian prince specifically...and who would believe them? Anyone who denies or is even skeptical of the historicity of the nigerian prince is a nut espousing a view contradictory to the methods of the consensus of scholars.
"The arguments that mythicists are known to make" is just a dry recounting of facts acknowledged even by the consensus. It's a bridge too far, for many of them, to simply say that paul is a literary, rather than historical, person. They know all of this, and still think, for whatever reason or none, that there was some real boy lost to history. Even mythicists like carrier tend to think this about paul (his reason being pretty cut and dry, relying on a historical paul to spread a mythological jesus).
Personally, I look over all of this and realize that all of these people, even the mythicists, would likely contend that the nigerian prince is real, and that this is the most parsimonious explanation for his emails. He tells embarrassing stories about himself. Somebody had to write them. How are we to explain all the money changing hands if there were no nigerian prince? Why would anyone lie about a nigerian prince specifically...and who would believe them? Anyone who denies or is even skeptical of the historicity of the nigerian prince is a nut espousing a view contradictory to the methods of the consensus of scholars.
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