To: aruanan
Re-reading what I wrote, I think you misinterpreted what I meant. It was clumsily phrased.
What I meant was that Paul was not Jesus, nor on the level of Jesus, who is God.
Sorry for the confusion.
42 posted on
08/09/2012 11:19:37 AM PDT by
chesley
(God's chosen instrument - the trumpet)
To: chesley
That's pretty much my interpretation, too. although there are those that think Paul is completely superfluous to "authentic" Christianity.
Ha ha, there are a whole bunch of people who don't like Paul. For some, he must be fake because his Christology is too advanced for the stage of theological evolution that was supposed to characterize the mid First Century church. For others, he seems to waste too much time nattering on and on about Israel to be taken seriously as someone ushering in the Age of the Church, ha ha ha. Look at Paul: In Fresh Perspective (2009) and Justification: God's Plan and Paul's Vision (2009) by N.T. Wright to see a way of looking at Paul that uses both eyes and doesn't involve a lot of theological squinting to make things appear to go together that don't.
44 posted on
08/09/2012 12:20:03 PM PDT by
aruanan
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