There is no point for you to write the whole story from Acts here. I have read it a few times.
The people in Asia who abandoned Paul were of course Christians because deserting him implies that they were once loyal and friendly to him and had some kind of relationship with Paul. Therefore this...
That is exactly what you and other Christians do, use scriptures to build upon pre-conceived beliefs that you learned from the church, and then you throw away and disregard other scriptures that so vividly show the errors of your claims.
You wasted a lot of time posting those verses because I...
Yes, the truth (John 17:17; Rev. 1:5) sets free from the penalty of sin " IF " one keeps on walking in faith - 1st John 1:7.
Free from sin meaning: 'salvation' (Matt. 24:13) of being 'delivered/rescued' from death.
Saved/delivered/rescued from death because of the Resurrection Hope - Acts...
My Faith, as all true Christian's Faith are dictated by ALL the Scriptures and thru the indwelling Holy Spirit who is given to everyone who is Born Again, and who teaches us all things.
As with many other of your beliefs here once again you are mistaken.
You, over and over again simply use...
Those points are ─
1. Jesus was killed by crucifixion under Pilate.
That is consistently maintained in the gospels (though Paul never mentions Pilate).
2. Very soon after his death, his disciples reported having experiences which they interpreted as the risen Jesus appearing to them, both...
Paul was a Christian in the sense that he had dang sure given up on being Jewish.
He did away with circumcision, with Saturday sabbath, sowed the untenable seed that Augustine of Hippo was later to grow into a jungle, the "Fall" (which simply doesn't exist in the Garden story, Genesis 2-3) and...
As one who used to think it more likely than not that the NT Jesus was probably not based on a real person, I'm not unfamiliar with the arguments both ways.
It seems to me that the strongest arguments against an historical Jesus are along these lines ─
─ There is no contemporary record, no...
Paul and Mark are not independent. There are dozens of examples of Mark's use of the Epistles. A few are here.
The principal works to consult on this (all of which from peer reviewed academic presses) are:
Michael Bird & Joel Willitts, Paul and the Gospels: Christologies, Conflicts and...
The argument against the existence of a human historical Jesus in based on the absence of evidence, as you say, starting with the datum that none of the gospel authors or Paul ever met one. To that I'd add that there are five different Jesuses in the NT ─ Paul's (written 20-30 years after the...
There are 4 texts but one gospel really, and the earliest was written probably in the mid 50s, 20 something years after Jesus died and the other 2 synoptics would have been written before 70AD according to the evidence and if we don't assume that prophecy is untrue and that they had to have been...
But just because the RCC says it doesn't mean it's historically accurate, however doctrinally accurate it may be.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are four gospels, not one, no? The first one written was Mark, around 75 CE. There was one earlier version of Jesus, namely Paul's. Of the other...
He is the apostles of Gentiles. He is a saint and a great pillar of Christianity, together with Saint Peter.
But yes, his importance has been undoubtedly oversized.
The creation of New Testament was the most difficult task in early Christianity. There were countless Gospels. Countless. Tens and...
Wait, where did you get the "Paul doesn't think Jesus is God" from? The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul has nothing about him believing this and he frequently mentions "our Lord Jesus Christ" or forms otherwise. Paul's Christology is is divine that scholars generally call it a high...
Paul's letters were, it appears, unknown in the general Christian community until followers of Marcion produced them in arguments in the mid second century. This has given rise to the question, are they forgeries, written later? One of the reasons I think they're most likely authentic is that no...
Paul, if he's to be believed, suffered a mental event which temporarily blinded him. End of story.
Again, we'll never know. But if I had been present at a purported resurrection of a dead man, the first thing that would occur to me was that he was never actually dead. If modern medicine...
Paul claimed he had visions and revelations. We have incredibly good evidence that Mark used the Epistles when creating his narrative so he included Earthly versions of them.
This in no way means they are true.
a few examples
Paradigmatic Example: The Last Supper
Another example is “the last...
I would think that there had to be a seed. One thing about Paul, after his vision he seemed to think that he knew more than the other disciples. In II Galatians he went so far as to correct Peter. "My hallucination trumps your actually knowing the mano_O"