(October 25, 2012 at 10:17 am)John V Wrote:(October 25, 2012 at 9:51 am)FallentoReason Wrote: Paul speaks of a spiritual being. That's no better than Attis dying and being resurrected.No, Paul speaks of Jesus as a real flesh and blood man. One example:
Galatians 4
4 But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
http://www.depts.drew.edu/jhc/eysingsp.html
Quote: The Epistle to the Galatians is considered almost universally to be the oldest surviving document of Christian origin, although we have no positive evidence for its existence before 180, and even then only the evidence of the most uncritical of the Church Fathers - namely, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, and Tertullian - [66] men who have pronounced almost all the New Testament writings to be of apostolic origin, including even the Fourth Gospel, the Pastoral, and the Catholic Epistles.
"Paul" is as phony as the rest of it.