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Gday

Kapyong wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2017 3:26 pm Paul. 98%
Paul wrote letters mid 1st century - from primary evidence, although corrupt. Various cities around the Eastern Mediterranean.

neilgodfrey wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2017 3:51 pm Which Paul?

The person who wrote the Big Seven, who we call 'Paul'.


Kapyong

Gday

Bernard Muller wrote: ↑Sun Sep 24, 2017 3:32 pm Peter/Cephas is also mentioned by Paul in 1 Corinthians.
Cordially, Bernard

Hmmm... are we sure that Paul thought Peter and Cephas were the same person ?

Kapyong

Gday all, I've been following the discussion about methodology etc., but the fiddly bits of historical epistomology are getting a little dry for an amateur. So I'd like to go back to the basics as Neil suggested : The discussion [is], from my perspective, about what facts or events or persons might ...

Gday all, What are you implying? a giant conspiracy in order to retrofit a historical Jesus into a religion which started with only a mythical Jesus? If you have a different theory for this alleged retrofitting, please let me know. No-one argued a giant conspiracy. Can you only see two options ? 1) ...

Bernard Muller wrote: ↑Mon Sep 11, 2017 12:51 pm But 'certainly', there are sufficiently enough evidence that the man Jesus existed as from Paul, Tacitus and Josephus.

Rubbish.

Sorry Bernard Muller,

You just aren't engaging.

One again you are reduced to your usual bed-rock stance :

"My web-site explains why I am right".


Kapyong

Gday Bernard Muller :) I'm afraid that your inability to answers these questions honestly exposes your fundamentally biased pre-conception - your faith in the true historical Jesus . Your obsession with this true historical Jesus has left you blind to the divine side of Paul's Jesus Christ. The answ...

Gday Bernard Muller and all :) My questions to you : Have you noticed a difference in the way Paul refers to Jesus Christ in the texts, compared to how he refers to everyone else ? How would you characterise that difference ? What do you think it means for their relative historicity ? I noticed your...

Gday Bernard Muller and all :) Paul repeatedly said or inferred Jesus had human parents ... Really ? Where ? BTW, perhaps you missed this question : Have you noticed a difference in the way Paul refers to Jesus Christ in the texts, compared to how he refers to everyone else ? How would you character...

Gday Bernard Muller and all :) to Kapyong, I agree with most of what you said but Christianity did not wait for the earliest Christian texts to be written in order to start. Paul himself said there were Christian apostles before him. Thankee Bernard :) I agree we often agree. Sure, we can say it sta...