Hi Rhonda
I'm sorry I've taken so long to post. It's just that when it became clear that this was going to be a thread about looking at the contradictions in the Bible it looked too daunting and pointless. The Bible is full of contradictions and I learnt a long time ago that it gets you nowhere to point them out or study them. If logic applies then the Bible simply cannot be taken literally. It is the work of man, and moreover, man at different times and with different agendas, all picking and choosing arbitrarily what to build on and what to ignore.
As for "Paulianity" there's a book you might like to read: "The Christ Conundrum: The Skeptic's Guide to Jesus", by Andrew Carruth. In it it explains that Paul was preaching to the rest of the Roman world, which was pagan, polytheistic, and couldn't understand the concept of the the monotheistic god of the Old Testament. So Paul was trying to distance his version of Christianity from Judaism and the Ten Commandments.
I'm sorry I've taken so long to post. It's just that when it became clear that this was going to be a thread about looking at the contradictions in the Bible it looked too daunting and pointless. The Bible is full of contradictions and I learnt a long time ago that it gets you nowhere to point them out or study them. If logic applies then the Bible simply cannot be taken literally. It is the work of man, and moreover, man at different times and with different agendas, all picking and choosing arbitrarily what to build on and what to ignore.
As for "Paulianity" there's a book you might like to read: "The Christ Conundrum: The Skeptic's Guide to Jesus", by Andrew Carruth. In it it explains that Paul was preaching to the rest of the Roman world, which was pagan, polytheistic, and couldn't understand the concept of the the monotheistic god of the Old Testament. So Paul was trying to distance his version of Christianity from Judaism and the Ten Commandments.
