(September 3, 2012 at 10:25 pm)Lion IRC Wrote:(September 3, 2012 at 10:21 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: It wouldn't have been a controversy if Jesus, THE FOUNDER OF THE CULT, said it wasn't a problem!
Jesus brought controversy during His ministry - long before Paul met Him.
Well DUH!
Wait, why are talking about Paul? Peter had the vision. And he was supposedly a disciple of Jesus if I remember correctly.
I really doubt Jesus' Great Commission given in his resurrection body just before he floated up into the sky would have been a serious point of controversy!
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).