RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
September 6, 2020 at 2:59 pm
(This post was last modified: September 6, 2020 at 3:06 pm by GrandizerII.)
(September 6, 2020 at 2:02 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:(September 6, 2020 at 10:12 am)Vicki Q Wrote: He jumped on the bandwagon after Damascus Road.
Paul's miraculous conversion story on Damascus Road is lifted from Euripides' play The Bacchae. Like Paul, the play’s villain Pentheus persecutes the cult of Dionysus. However, also like Paul, despite himself, he is ironically converted to the faith to by an unwelcome personal epiphany of the wine god. Peter and Paul’s miraculous prison breaks in Acts also feature the same thrilling escapades as Euripides’ play, written roughly 500 years earlier. Both include miraculous unlocking of chains and handy earthquakes.
Writer of Acts even quotes the play when in a scene where Jesus, the bright light from heaven, speaks to Paul/Saul, saying to him: “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.” Because “kick against the pricks” line is spoken by Dionysus in the play.
So? Similar phrases don't mean one story was lifted from the other, lol.
Is it wrong to just say that Paul may have had a vision (or that he claimed he had a vision) but it doesn't mean he actually saw a resurrected Jesus, only that it was a vision?
Can we see the context in which the phrase you speak of was said, btw? Line number please. I have a translated Bacchae text available right now.
Also, we don't have any source to indicate Jesus was ever thought to be a wine god by Paul or the other early Christians.