Paul’s Six Greatest Ideas ***
These two posts by Dr. James Tabor are a great presentation of Pauline theology. Paul’s Six Greatest Ideas: Part One Paul’s Six Greatest Ideas: Part Two Extracts from those posts are below.
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Did Paul Write the Pastoral Epistles?
All italicized text below was extracted from the link above each one. Why 1 Timothy is a Forgery Below is the Claude.ai enumeration of the pros and cons cited by C.J. Cornthwaite. The transcript is in his directory in DroBox. Prompt: Prepared a summary of the attached Transcript enumerating the arguments for and against with […]
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The Poetry of Philippians 2:6-11. Link to Marg’s Blog. The Most Widely Discussed Passage of Philippians by Bar Ehram, May 2025. The reasons for thinking that Paul is quoting rather than composing it are pretty compelling, and I will get to them eventually. For now I want to point out the rhythmic structure. … These […]
Continue ReadingPaul & Jesus
Paul only quoted Jesus three times: Paul did not include any of Jesus’s parables in his letters. Is Paul the Founder of Christianity? Bart Ehrman’s podcast Episode 6 below is with Dr. Tabor filling in for Bart.
Continue ReadingPeter 1 and 2 in the Canon
This is a very long page that addresses many issues with these two books. Keep in mind that these books are in the canon and different from the apocryphal Gospel of Peter. Extracts from Hugo Medez’s slide from Lesson 25: The Other Apostles Speak, II: The Letters of Peter of his course at BSA The […]
Continue ReadingForgiveness, Atonement, or Believing
John 20:30-31; Life in his name through believing 30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book. 31 But these are written so that you may come to believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through believing you may have life in […]
Continue ReadingPaul’s Authentic Letters & the Others
Below is from Wikipedia here. Seven letters (with consensus dates)[6] considered genuine by most scholars: The order listed above was the order written per Joshua Schachterle, Ph.D here. The three letters on which scholars are about evenly divided:[1] If these letters are inauthentic, then the consensus dates are probably incorrect. The letters thought to be pseudepigraphic by many scholars […]
Continue ReadingPaul’s Thorn in the Flesh
Finding Paul’s Weakness – By Ben Witherington III Extract — Paul’s problem seems to have been with his eyes, and this was no small problem. In that world, not only were the eyes seen as the windows on the soul but also as projectors of light or darkness. Paul’s Thorn in the Flesh — In search […]
Continue ReadingSchweitzer & a Thoroughly Apocalyptic Jesus (and Paul)
Go here to read the article with the above title by Dr. James Tabor. The final paragraph is as follows. For Paul the “appointed time” of the End had drawn very near (1 Cor. 7:26, 29, 31). How near, it is difficult to say, but he wrote that in the early 50’s CE. If he, […]
Continue ReadingEvidence the Gospels are Pauline Documents
From Tabor here – Three of our New Testament gospels record Jesus’ Last Supper in which he tells his disciples over bread and wine: “This is my body,” and “This is my blood,” and in the gospel of John Jesus speaks of “eating my flesh” and “drinking my blood.” These writers based their accounts of […]
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