How Did Paul Know Jesus Was Resurrected?
Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2016 6:58 am
Was reading De praescriptione haereticorum again and stumbled on this passage this morning:
We've had discussions here about whether 1 Corinthians references a 'tradition' or not. The heretics certainly did not think so. All that Paul learned about Christ/Jesus came from a heavenly revelation. All of which makes his knowledge about the doctrine of the resurrection very strange. The gospel, which the Marcionites thought Paul was the first to pen, now has a woman being the first to see the empty tomb. In subsequent re-drafting of the text there are various encounters with the risen Jesus. I wonder however whether or not Paul's original gospel resembled Mark's with respect to the empty tomb. How could Paul have claimed to have never received any human knowledge about Jesus especially his resurrection?In this way let all heresies, when challenged by our Churches, according to each of these standards, prove how they imagine themselves to be Apostolical (because of the claims of the Marcionite canon being an Apostolikon?). But indeed they are not so; nor can they prove themselves to be what they are not; nor are they received into communion and fellowship by Churches which are in any way Apostolical, seeing that they are in no way Apostolical because of their divergence in doctrine.
I ADDUCE in addition to these arguments an examination of the doctrines themselves which were in existence in the time of the Apostles, and were by the same Apostles both pointed out and rejected. For thus, too, they will be more easily exposed when they are proved either to have existed already at that time, or to have derived their origin from those which did then exist. Paul, in his first Epistle to the Corinthians, censures the deniers and doubters of the resurrection.