RE: Why are Paul's writings in the Bible?
October 7, 2023 at 12:59 pm
(This post was last modified: October 7, 2023 at 1:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
We watch no such thing, and not even the consensus of scholars thinks so. We read stories from people we think (wish, dream, hope) might've watched some paul do something.
The "undisputed letters" do not refer to the journal of the historic person of paul. That's fundy crankbait, but also easily misunderstood as the common linguistic implication of the use of such terms of art. Same reason they like to say "psuedonymous" instead of "forgery". It's not that historicists are mythicists, but that historicists and mythicists agree with these issues being present. The mythicists think that's because it's exactly what it looks like, and the historicists think there was somebody at the bottom of it even so. In exactly those words, often enough.
I think that it doesn't matter whether there was someone underneath it because magic book isn't about that person even if there were. Magic book is exactly what it looks like. Myth and legend about a god and the powers and privileges that follow worshipping this god. The communities that produced these texts are the explanation for their existence and details. Not some guy. On some level, I feel for the poor fucks who make it their lifes work to try to find the historic paul or the historic jesus - they never will. The deck was stacked against them by cultists who gained control of a state through courting wealthy families before summoning the mob against each other to settle the remaining disputes.
The "undisputed letters" do not refer to the journal of the historic person of paul. That's fundy crankbait, but also easily misunderstood as the common linguistic implication of the use of such terms of art. Same reason they like to say "psuedonymous" instead of "forgery". It's not that historicists are mythicists, but that historicists and mythicists agree with these issues being present. The mythicists think that's because it's exactly what it looks like, and the historicists think there was somebody at the bottom of it even so. In exactly those words, often enough.
I think that it doesn't matter whether there was someone underneath it because magic book isn't about that person even if there were. Magic book is exactly what it looks like. Myth and legend about a god and the powers and privileges that follow worshipping this god. The communities that produced these texts are the explanation for their existence and details. Not some guy. On some level, I feel for the poor fucks who make it their lifes work to try to find the historic paul or the historic jesus - they never will. The deck was stacked against them by cultists who gained control of a state through courting wealthy families before summoning the mob against each other to settle the remaining disputes.
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