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1. Jesus must have lived after Adam, since Paul calls him the latter Adam (1 Corinthians 15.22, 45). 2. Jesus must have lived after Abraham, since Paul calls him the seed (descendant) of Abraham (Galatians 3.16). 3. Jesus must have lived after Moses, since Paul says that he was the end of the law o...

GakuseiDon wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 2:42 am I'd argue that Paul is evidence for some kind of Jesus, a man who lived in Paul's recent past

I see nothing in Paul to date the crucifixion of Jesus as recent.
The revelation of his death is recent, yes, of course.

But the death itself ?

So, who was that historical Jesus? Paul describes him as humble, coming as a servant, obedient unto death. We see this theme in other early literature An allusion to the scriptures : Isaiah 53. If an ancient author said that Inanna, was obedient unto death and we know that he had Isaiah 53 in mind ...

I think we have discussed this before; but I find passages like Romans 5:8 But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. as implying that Paul regarded the death of Christ as having occurred during the lifetime of his readers. In the context of Paul's whole ...

The early post-Pauline 1 Timothy mentions Pontius Pilate as Christ's judge, and the passage in Tacitus may imply that such a dating was generally held by mid 1st century Christians. 1 Timothy and Tacitus are not mid 1st century texts. They are both dated after Mark and therefore are certainly influ...

. However, I find the idea that there were mid 1st century followers of Christ who believed in a Jesus crucified under Pontius Pilate but that no such Jesus ever existed uninteresting. Andrew Criddle Neither the disciples nor Pontius Pilate are mentioned in Paul's letters. The question, if we focus...

Esther is a fictional character and her story is a "midrash" of the story of Joseph in Genesis. The author of Esther imitates some of Joseph's passages in the book of Genesis. This was a common practice at the time to create new narratives, as Nathanael Vette has shown in his book "Wr...

Tim O’neill is not interesting.
He is dogmatic and repeats the same arguments all the time.
I would rather listen to a Christian apologist on this subject.

Does anyone have access to the full version of this article? https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.15699/jbl.1403.2021.7 Looks interesting, but I can't find the whole article anywhere. Lol, i was searching the article 2 days ago. I did not find it either. This scholar is interesting. I read his article a...

Capture d’écran 2023-02-18 à 14.16.22.png The expression "slave of all" appears only once in the whole Bible : in this epistle of Paul and in the Gospel of Mark. -------------------------------- Capture d’écran 2023-02-18 à 14.26.09.png -------------------------------- There are many othe...