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Your point that 'Saul' persecuting 'the Son of David' alludes to the OT Saul persecuting David himself. is extremely pertinent, and one that needs greater attention in biblical scholarship I'm glad you think so. Another example of New/Old assimilation is the seventy (or seventy-two) apostles appoin...

Either 'Paul' was unaware of the content of the four received 'Apostolic Gospels' when he composed his Epistles, OR he rates as being one of the most self centered, arrogant, and dishonest of all christ-ian witnesses ever. IMV 'Paul's' writings reflect about 70% of the former, and 30% of the latter...

It's not just the bald lack of reference to Jesus life or teaching in the epistles that is the point. As G. A. Wells pointed out more than once, it's the lack of reference exactly where one would expect to find it: where Paul is giving a ruling on a point which according to the Gospels was already, ...

There's a summary of Markan echoes here:

http://vridar.info/xorigins/storyechoes1.htm

OK, but we can't just jump from a person whose vision of the 'Lord' has to be supported by 'scripture' to a person who knows of a historical person who, miraculously, turns out to be the central 'hero' of that scripture. One of the things that make me doubt Jesus was 'historical' is precisely the f...

OK, but we can't just jump from a person whose vision of the 'Lord' has to be supported by 'scripture' to a person who knows of a historical person who, miraculously, turns out to be the central 'hero' of that scripture. One of the things that make me doubt Jesus was 'historical' is precisely the f...

Can someone appointing apostles, teaching, living on earth be a mythical character? If Paul can deduce his 'apostleship' from a vision or 'revelation', why not everybody else? Did Paul only say that? If you read and know Paul, he also states he had a feeling from within himself, that changed his he...

Clive wrote:Can someone appointing apostles, teaching, living on earth be a mythical character?

If Paul can deduce his 'apostleship' from a vision or 'revelation', why not everybody else?

While evolution Is based on facts, and the historicity of Jesus is based on weaker evidence, and it may be poor. But it is still evidence. You're ignoring the intervention of the human creative mind, a phenomenon of almost unlimited duplicity, mephistophelean motive and lust for domination (both ph...

Hi Peter, Martin Luther? Wasn't Daneil N. Gullotta's "On the Challenges of Engaging and Not Engaging the Christ Myth Theory" simply a postmodern version of Pope Leo X's 1520 Exsurge Domine [url]http://bookofconcord.org/exsurge-domine.php: [/url] Arise, O Lord, and judge your own cause. Re...