RE: Why are Paul's writings in the Bible?
October 8, 2023 at 11:28 am
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2023 at 11:42 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Paul does use the same term to refer to other people who no one thinks he's trying to communicate as a fraternal brother. The distinction as scholars have it is contextual, not linguistic. Or, idk, I guess you could make the claim by proposing that paul didn't actually write the other uses of the term (which is, I suspect, how that claim got legs to be repeated here by you)?
Either way, the mention isn't really about the geneology of jesus - it's just the preamble to a screed against judaism that is clearly intended to boost the narrators authority - not report the results of gods 23 and me. Paul the romanizer strikes again. The idea that this reference pertains to an actual brother of christ is more a product of trying to arbitrarily demytify christ than it being something that even the people who included it believed..though, hell, maybe "paul" really did believe it, heretic that he was to the religion allegedly based on his purported letters.
I'm just throwing this out there. Maybe Paul, whoever he was, if he was, was a really gullible dude. Some rando from another country he'd just met said he was gods brother and paul was like "sure, sounds legit".
Either way, the mention isn't really about the geneology of jesus - it's just the preamble to a screed against judaism that is clearly intended to boost the narrators authority - not report the results of gods 23 and me. Paul the romanizer strikes again. The idea that this reference pertains to an actual brother of christ is more a product of trying to arbitrarily demytify christ than it being something that even the people who included it believed..though, hell, maybe "paul" really did believe it, heretic that he was to the religion allegedly based on his purported letters.
I'm just throwing this out there. Maybe Paul, whoever he was, if he was, was a really gullible dude. Some rando from another country he'd just met said he was gods brother and paul was like "sure, sounds legit".
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