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Thanks Ben. Hung on a tree? Joshua 8: 29 And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, threw it down at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day. ...

Working through this s bit more. So if we now read the hymn from Philippians: who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as something to be exploited, 7 but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, 8 he hum...

It may be that Paul is talking about the historical Joshua son of Nun, a Messiah for the Jewish people, a title he could rightly be granted. But the "rising" of Joshua was a recent event. Joshua died a long time ago, but he is risen now. Again: Romans 5: 6 For while we were still weak, at ...

What I'm proposing is that everywhere Paul was always talking about Joshua son of Nun. Any time Paul says Jesus Christ he's really saying the Messiah Joshua son of Nun. Paul never talks about a Jesus blood brother of James.

To test this a little further, are there any stories about Joshua son of Nun going from rich to poor?

2 Cor 8:9 For you know the generous act of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty you might become rich.

But wait, maybe this is spelled out. Romans 5: 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death came through sin, and so death spread to all because all have sinned— 13 sin was indeed in the world before the law, but sin is not reckoned when there is no law. 14 Yet death exer...

Yeah, you're right. Jesus getting Paul straight is complicated :p But it still doesn't make sense. 3 So with us; while we were minors, we were enslaved to the elemental spirits of the world. 4 But when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, 5 in order t...

Actually, I'm now thinking that "the seed" Paul is thinking about is Isaac, not Jacob. "Gal 4: 28 Now you, my friends, are children of the promise, like Isaac." Also: Romans 9: 6 It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all Israelites truly belong to Israel, 7 and ...

Paul never said anything about God only sending one son. It's pretty clear that the son born under the law in this passage is Isaac. The whole of Galatians 4 is about Abraham, Sarah and Isaac. The whole of Galatians is about circumcision. Galatians 4: 1 My point is this: heirs, as long as they are m...

In Gal 3 Paul lays out a pesher about God's promise to Abraham. He talks about how his promise only applied to a single seed, a single child, and Abraham's. He ends with: 28 There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one ...