i dont doubt it; only humans have the most interesting ability to not see what doesnt fit. I still catch that in myself like every day lol
Featured Paul mentions that “more than 500” saw the risen Jesus in a single early letter, but included this in no other letters. Why ? ?
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youre still talking about Jesus, returning when you cant find any Jesus hupo strepho, see
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John 14:1-3 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
Matt.24:3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?…37: But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
What I see is a promise from Jesus that He is coming back. You are free to not believe Jesus is coming back, but I’ll stand by what He said.
It’s possible, it’s perhaps even probable!
All the same, I’d suggest giving due weight to the boring mainstream views— keeping in mind that people’s level of doing is often higher than their level of explaining. Meaning, that people have often hit upon a bridging solution, but their “reasons why” might be appallingly bad. Or in other words, “the public” is not wrong about everything. Crowdsourcing and all that.
Okay, “Paul’s letters” have been whittled down from 13 to 7. But that’s still a core of 7 letters written by the same person. If you think written style is that definite a thing. And I guess I kind of do. Of course it would be best to look at them in the Greek of 50 AD. And perhaps even the Greek of a certain specific area.
The light and the fainting on the road to Damascus sounds like an epilepsy seizure, although I really don’t know that much about seizures. But sounds like a real person. Maybe.
def could be, sure. There are a couple passages that make me suspect that he maybe bounced it off of several other rabbis for precise wording, at least, but that might even be off. When you are Quoted as saying “to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord” when you never said that, and to be able to rephrase eating the fruit of knowledge so that it sounds like a good thing? def inspired, at leastIt’s possible, it’s perhaps even probable!
All the same, I’d suggest giving due weight to the boring mainstream views— keeping in mind that people’s level of doing is often higher than their level of explaining. Meaning, that people have often hit upon a bridging solution, but their “reasons why” might be appallingly bad. Or in other words, “the public” is not wrong about everything. Crowdsourcing and all that.
Okay, “Paul’s letters” have been whittled down from 13 to 7. But that’s still a core of 7 letters written by the same person. If you think written style is that definite a thing. And I guess I kind of do. Of course it would be best to look at them in the Greek of 50 AD. And perhaps even the Greek of a certain specific area.
The light and the fainting on the road to Damascus sounds like an epilepsy seizure, although I really don’t know that much about seizures. But sounds like a real person. Maybe.
14But solid food is for the mature, who by constant use have trained their senses to distinguish good from evil
Tbh its stuff like “on the road to Damascus” and “tentmaker” that got me thinking he might be a composite, but who knows. The episode i put down to creating a new mythology, but i have heard the epilepsy thing too, ya
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I think I’m probably “spectrum,” too. Although at 61, not diagnosed, of course I’m not.
Next lady friend I’m going to let know way early. For starters, I have patchy skills, excellent social perception in some areas, not others. It’s like zen — hard to be aware of what you’re not aware! But just because I’m good at some areas, doesn’t mean the blind spots are deliberative.
Also finding out about sensory issues . .
For example, I will judge an otherwise okay restaurant very negatively if the place reeks of bleach. And it’s helpful finding out that other people aren’t passive in this regard. They’re just legit bothered less by it.
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Next project . . .
I’m going to pull the dates for
1st Corinthians
Gospel of Luke.
Luke is years later, in fact, several decades later. And if the rumor was getting firmed up. For example, if several people were going public and saying, No, it’s not a rumor, the risen Jesus did appear to us. And putting their reputations on the line …
Then it’d probably be in Luke.
Especially since the Gospel of Luke has the longer, more descriptive tellings of post-Resurrection events.
For example, Luke includes the “Road to Emmaus” in which two followers of Luke are walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus, and a stranger starts walking with them and asks them what they are talking about so intently. And it’s not until hours later, that God allows them to see that this stranger is Jesus.
I’m going to pull the dates for
1st Corinthians
Gospel of Luke.
Luke is years later, in fact, several decades later. And if the rumor was getting firmed up. For example, if several people were going public and saying, No, it’s not a rumor, the risen Jesus did appear to us. And putting their reputations on the line …
Then it’d probably be in Luke.
Especially since the Gospel of Luke has the longer, more descriptive tellings of post-Resurrection events.
For example, Luke includes the “Road to Emmaus” in which two followers of Luke are walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus, and a stranger starts walking with them and asks them what they are talking about so intently. And it’s not until hours later, that God allows them to see that this stranger is Jesus.
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