RE: Would Jesus promote punishing the innocent instead of the guilty?
August 30, 2020 at 10:33 am
The life of Paul is not debated within academia. You are welcome to check out all the major summary resources- Wikipedia, Brittanica, BBC, Biography online, History World and even things like this ; you'll get the same story. Even if you ignore Xian resources, a simple Google comes up with the same thing in place after place.
The history about his life is secure.
Given that you're wisely not going to try for any alternative theory, it seems we still have to explain the most unlikely of scenarios, being how a hardline Pharisee came to be running the Gentile section of a Jewish sub-faith which believed that the Kingdom of God had been inaugurated.
What changed his mind? Why did the group tell him the Kingdom of God had been inaugurated and why did he buy into it? What caused him to go from fanatical Torah observer to being not bothered about Torah?
One can do a simple and obvious solution to this jigsaw puzzle, or try a clumsy way to avoid the most obvious explanation, which sensibly you've decided to not do.
The history about his life is secure.
Given that you're wisely not going to try for any alternative theory, it seems we still have to explain the most unlikely of scenarios, being how a hardline Pharisee came to be running the Gentile section of a Jewish sub-faith which believed that the Kingdom of God had been inaugurated.
What changed his mind? Why did the group tell him the Kingdom of God had been inaugurated and why did he buy into it? What caused him to go from fanatical Torah observer to being not bothered about Torah?
One can do a simple and obvious solution to this jigsaw puzzle, or try a clumsy way to avoid the most obvious explanation, which sensibly you've decided to not do.
