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by jgreen44
Sun Jun 23, 2013 11:05 am
Forum: History of Abrahamic Religions & Related Texts
Topic: On Paul Claiming to Have Seen Jesus
Replies: 41
Views: 593

[quote=""outhouse""]Sort of what you might describe as a change of heart.[/quote]Or what, in modern politics, is known as a flip-flop.
by jgreen44
Sun Jun 23, 2013 1:14 am
Forum: History of Abrahamic Religions & Related Texts
Topic: On Paul Claiming to Have Seen Jesus
Replies: 41
Views: 593

[quote=""outhouse""]Paul uses a Koine Greek word that amounts to "a feeling from within"

Nothing cryptic this time.[/quote]So Paul was describing indigestion.
by jgreen44
Sat Jun 22, 2013 12:26 pm
Forum: History of Abrahamic Religions & Related Texts
Topic: On Paul Claiming to Have Seen Jesus
Replies: 41
Views: 593

[quote=""aa5874""]You have statistics for everything you imagine?? [/quote]I'm not imagining anything. Some time ago you expressed great offense at the notion that the ancient Jews engaged in human sacrifice. An atheist would not give a shit. And I know you are not a Christian. [...
by jgreen44
Fri Jun 21, 2013 7:50 pm
Forum: History of Abrahamic Religions & Related Texts
Topic: On Paul Claiming to Have Seen Jesus
Replies: 41
Views: 593

[quote=""aa5874""]The possibility of me being a Jew living in Miami requires a separate and independent inquiry[/quote]Indeed. I have been looking into this. Statistically, it is more likely you live in Broward County.
by jgreen44
Fri Jun 21, 2013 6:05 pm
Forum: History of Abrahamic Religions & Related Texts
Topic: On Paul Claiming to Have Seen Jesus
Replies: 41
Views: 593

[quote=""outhouse""]Acts describes that not Paul[/quote]Correct. Paul states cryptically that Jesus was "revealed in" Paul.

If a flesh and blood Jesus was revealed in Paul, Paul's Jesus is either a chimera or Paul's gay lover.
by jgreen44
Fri Jun 21, 2013 12:23 pm
Forum: History of Abrahamic Religions & Related Texts
Topic: Early Church Fathers and Mythicism
Replies: 43
Views: 591

[quote=""Roger Pearse""]The pagan (and Jewish) taunt could easily have been answered by the Gnostic approach, if the Christians had not, one and all, held firmly to the view that Christ had died on the cross and risen.[/quote] The Christians Athenians held firmly to the view that...
by jgreen44
Sat Jun 15, 2013 3:13 pm
Forum: History of Abrahamic Religions & Related Texts
Topic: What started Christianity?
Replies: 1052
Views: 10412

[quote=""James The Least""] But there was already a Jesus cult in Rome prior to the fall of the temple, according to Suetonius and Tacitus. [/quote]Those were Gnostics, worshipers of the cosmic Chrestus. [quote=""James The Least""]If you accept the traditional...
by jgreen44
Sat Jun 15, 2013 2:50 pm
Forum: History of Abrahamic Religions & Related Texts
Topic: What started Christianity?
Replies: 1052
Views: 10412

[quote=""James The Least""]Are there any previous examples of a real, historical person being given a virgin birth by mythographers? Legends certainly grew about real people, no one is disputing that. But it would be very strange if Jesus was the only supposedly historical figure...
by jgreen44
Sat Jun 15, 2013 2:25 pm
Forum: Biblical Criticism & History
Topic: Do you need a Ph.D. to understand the Bible?
Replies: 20
Views: 507

[quote=""outhouse""]Personally I would run with Spin or Legion before her Greek interpretation.[/quote]Wait a minute Melissa Scott was an expert in Greek before she even met her mentor.

Sorry. Couldn't resist.
by jgreen44
Sat Jun 15, 2013 2:09 pm
Forum: Biblical Criticism & History
Topic: Do you need a Ph.D. to understand the Bible?
Replies: 20
Views: 507

[quote=""Toto""]James McGrath says yes.

Yes you do.
[/quote]Perhaps McGrath says we need a PhD to understand the Bible because McGrath has a PhD?

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