(February 4, 2015 at 4:00 pm)SteveII Wrote: It also assumes that, presumably Paul, was familiar with the details of each of the examples of ancient myths you give. I don't see reasons why that would be true. He would have been studied in Jewish law and the OT. Access to the details of extinct and eastern religions would have to be explained for this to be plausible.
Well, he was from Tarsus. Are you saying that a native of that city would have been unfamiliar with the Roman cults?