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Paul's Beliefs
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RE: Paul's Beliefs
Quote:Like Jesus being from the lineage of King David comes from Isaiah 9:7.


Of course, then xtians go out of their way to claim that "Joseph" never fucked Mary so all the lineage shit in your gospels is pretty worthless.

Luke 1

Quote:34 Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man?

35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Of course, the bolded part is a staple of porn films.
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RE: Paul's Beliefs
(August 1, 2012 at 12:59 pm)Undeceived Wrote:
(August 1, 2012 at 2:21 am)FallentoReason Wrote: Like Jesus being from the lineage of King David comes from Isaiah 9:7. Paul quite often brings up the prophets like in Romans 1:2.
What about borrowed theories or ideas? Ideologies? There's nothing in Romans 1:2 that suggests causality--Paul is simply pointing out that Jesus Christ was a descendant of David, as the Messiah was predicted to be (this is a standard persuasive technique). As far as theories or way of thinking, I see Paul's writings as a complement to the Old Testament, not more of the same. It has been the longstanding claim of atheists on this forum that the two testaments aren't linked at all, and that Paul created an entirely new religion. So which is it? If you say Paul references the OT to prove his new-age NT ideals, I and every Christian agrees with you. A better study would be checking how much of the Epistles have their root in the teachings of Jesus--I think you'd be more successful there.

I definitely agree with all of it. What I'm getting at with Paul referencing the OT is that it's the only stuff he seems to know--scripture. He either refers back to that or he lets us know of revelations through Christ Jesus. Great... But what about Jesus' 3 year ministry? Nothing worth mentioning from that? Well, apparently it's non-existent because Paul's gospel came from no man. It came through Christ Jesus. Paul's statement (Galatians 1:11,12) is mutually exclusive ruling out the possibility that Jesus walked on earth.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
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