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Right but its important to understand whether Paul thinks that the Jewish scriptures were produced in his age. Do any of the stories of the Jewish scripture stake place in his age? Was Adam a part of his age? I assume not. Was Noah? I assume not. Was Abraham? Not sure. Was Moses? Not sure. Was Joshu...

Paul clearly hijacked the movement, Mark then clearly made up the character of Jesus. What just puzzles me is why none of the two ever points to the other in any way - that, or it is too subtle for me (and that point of saturation is reached fairly quickly, I can tell you) Mark very clearly points ...

6 Yet among the mature we do speak wisdom, though it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to perish. 7 But we speak God’s wisdom, secret and hidden, which God decreed before the ages for our glory. 8 None of the rulers of this age understood this; for if they had...

Paul gives no indication that Jewish leadership had anything to do with the death or sacrifice of Jesus/Joshua.

These are good questions. Paul's letters give the impression that there were existing churches. In Romans he says that there was a Roman church before he ever started his ministry. He says that his relatives were apostles before him. In Galatians he says that he taught them about the mysteries of Ch...

I'm not entirely sure myself, I'm still trying to figure it out. One issue is that we really don't know anything about the earliest Christ worshipers other than what Paul tells us, and we don't know how representative his views were. What I've been able to piece together is something along these lin...

If I were forced to come up with a theory along these lines I guess it would be something like this: The "Jesus Christ" Paul was preaching was a figure like Enoch, derived from Jewish scriptures about Joshua son of Nun -- Joshua the Messiah. The Joshua of Paul was created through the proce...

We'll here's a stumbling block to the idea that Jesus Christ / Joshua son of Nun that comes from Romans itself: Romans 10: 14 But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in one of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone to ...

I'll let you read the thread robert, but yeah, I agree that Jesus is not a descendant of David. What I'm proposing is very simple. Jesus Christ is simply Joshua the Messiah (son of Nun). What's laid out in the thread are reasons to believe that the Joshua Paul was talking about lived and died during...

wouldn't the Talmud have something to say on this messiah Joshua idea, especially if they were aware the Christian Jesus's name derived from the biblical Joshua? PS Is it possible to imagine someone named 'Joses' or 'Josis' the short Greek form of Joseph being etymologically connected back to the H...