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RE: "Paul" What's Bullshit and What Isn't?
August 9, 2018 at 5:41 pm
Add that to the long list of things you don' know, RR?
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RE: "Paul" What's Bullshit and What Isn't?
August 10, 2018 at 5:23 pm
Isn't Paul the NT writer that never ever mentions the Sermon on the Mount or the Beatitudes or something?
And all the Christians ignore how incomplete his knowledge of Jesus is ????
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August 10, 2018 at 5:44 pm
Yeahbut..."Paul" knew how to market a cult, and that was far more important to "god's" plan than any monday detail.
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RE: "Paul" What's Bullshit and What Isn't?
August 10, 2018 at 5:49 pm
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If I'm not mistaken, he does mention love of thy neighbor/enemy (one of those, I forget which one). That is something mentioned in the Sermon on the Mount.
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August 10, 2018 at 6:00 pm
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Nope. "Matthew" is the only one aware of the contents (or even the occurrence) of the sermon on the mount. A man who spent weeks with "peter", and even met god's brother...but he didn't know shit about god's best act. The time he brought down the house, puns about whores and eyes and plucking things and all..... when people were traveling from everywhere to hear a random loon opine on the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything.
To "Paul"..... god was a man in the sky that he saw in a vision on a road.
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RE: "Paul" What's Bullshit and What Isn't?
August 10, 2018 at 6:20 pm
I was more referring to the fact that themes sounded in the sermon are represented as themes in Paul's writings. This could be taken as evidence that he was familiar with the sermon's contents.
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August 10, 2018 at 8:02 pm
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He wasn't. This is boilerplate shit for nt scholars, even if magic book believers somehow need to imagine that he was.
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August 11, 2018 at 8:02 am
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(August 9, 2018 at 7:14 am)alpha male Wrote: The logic (so to speak) in the article boils down to:
1. We know how to identify interpolations, e.g. these texts.
2. We haven't identified interpolations in Paul's letters.
3. Therefore, Paul's letters contain interpolations.
Quote:Scholars have identified numerous interpolations in other ancient texts — “Homeric, Classical, Hellenistic, Jewish and Christian.” We know of interpolations in letters by ancient philosophers to their followers. Even in the Gospel of Mark we have the little disputed interpolation of the final chapter, 16:9-20; and in the Gospel of John there is the episode of the woman taken in adultery found in 7:53 – 8:11. And in the gospels of Matthew and Luke we find that huge chunks have been interpolated into the gospel of Mark. So if we know for a fact that texts were very often expanded with inserted material then we should surely be surprised if Paul’s letters proved to be the exception.
I'll grant you that the article doesn't deliver rock solid evidence for interpolations. But, all it's arguing is that interpolations are likely given what we know about treatment of other ancient texts, including those found in the Bible.
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RE: "Paul" What's Bullshit and What Isn't?
August 11, 2018 at 7:55 pm
No, surely not. Magic book isn't like..well..the rest of magic book. 
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RE: "Paul" What's Bullshit and What Isn't?
August 11, 2018 at 8:01 pm
(August 7, 2018 at 11:45 pm)Minimalist Wrote: https://vridar.org/2017/05/26/why-many-i...ry-likely/
Quote:Why Many Interpolations in Paul’s Letters are Very Likely
A discussion/review of William O. Walker's "Some Surprises From The Apostle Paul."
Quote:Our ignorance of the state of the letters prior to 200 CE may itself be evidence that the earlier letters differed significantly from the versions we now have. Marcion’s shorter versions, after all, no longer survives.
Oh, and before the jesus freaks lose their shit, Walker was a Professor of Religion at Trinity University so, he was or still is, one of you. Paul was a hysterical twit who, if he ranted at me on the city bus, I would have got off on the next stop.
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