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Google AI, which letters are we highly confident the Apostle Paul wrote and what are their estimated dates? “Academic consensus holds that the Apostle Paul is the authentic author of seven letters in the New Testament, often called the "undisputed" or "genuine" Pauline epistles. The other six...

https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/98mar/valujet3.htm “ . . . The two unfortunate mechanics who signed off on the nonexistent safety caps just happened to be the slowest to slip away when the supervisors needed signatures. The other mechanics almost certainly would have signed too...

Whereas . . . life is more like baseball. It’s a matter of trying to get the odds working in your favor. And you’re dealing with a variety of different personalities, and this very much matters, too. Both the people and the tasks matter. And you adjust to changing circumstances. In fact...

Somehow people expect ethics to be like geometry. You take premises which are “self-evident” and from these, you derive conclusions with 100% certainly.

In this passage at least, Paul pretty clearly thinks marriage is 2nd best. PS I’m not sure why the woman is expected to be a virgin when the man is not! I think he’d probably change his views.

Thecla, I think And she was supposedly a young woman from a rich family who traveled with Paul in a relationship of respect, platonic love, and romantic abstinence. It would have been an equally powerful story if she had been a young woman from a poor family. I think “chivalry” would be the...

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%206&version=NKJV Romans, chapter 6 — 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? ————— I like how it starts the 2nd verse with “Certainly...

I think this is the word Protestants use. Catholics are just fine with keeping Maccabees in the Old Testament, for example. And I’m pretty sure that both Catholics and Protestants, as well as Eastern Orthodox believers, have the same 27 books in the New Testament.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Hippo in the year 393 — “ . . the first time a council of bishops listed and approved a Christian Biblical canon that corresponds to the modern Catholic canon . . . . . Previous councils had approved similar, but slightly different, canons. . ”...

Usually after they die, but some exceptions to this.

While it would be easy enough to say, that’s just a slightly bigger circle of reasoning, I’m going to say, it’s one line of evidence which shows Paul’s writings as mainstream within the early Christian movement.

”Remember the Titans,” from the year 2000 The one guy says, “That’s the worst attitude I’ve ever heard!” It worked. In part, because it’s a criticism about something temporary. Plus, they have an ongoing relationship. All the same, in this kind of situation, maybe even your best effort...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant Okay, this is the philosopher Immanuel Kant who lived from 1724 to 1804. And this is a fine attempt at global efforts. I think it’s somewhat similar to the Golden Rule. But I’m not sure how it’s going to help us with a difficult interpersonal...

https://bonesandscrolls.substack.com/p/humorism-or-fluid-dynamics-in-ancient Well, it certainly is a colorful theory. And it purported to explain almost everything about health, but actually . . . it explained very little. I think the goal was to “balance” the 4 humors, but it practice...

Paul tries to be a humble person and a servant-leader to the beginning church. My guess is that he was talking about Old Testament scripture, the classic scripture, etc, etc. And not the very letter he was writing to younger Timothy, that would be the most circular thing in the world!

Yes, isn’t this interesting! :)

Thank you. Yes, I like this verse, too. :)

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20corinthians%2010&version=RSV @Scooter , can you suggest verses similar to 1 Corinthians 10:27 - 29a. This says, If someone offers you food, accept and eat it graciously without worrying about whether it was offered to a Pagan deity. But if...

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Thessalonians%203&version=NLT 2nd Thessalonians, chapter 3 — 6 And now, dear brothers and sisters, we give you this command in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ: Stay away from all believers [or, “from every brother”] who live idle lives and...

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Thessalonians%203&version=NLT . . 16 Now may the Lord of peace himself give you his peace at all times and in every situation. The Lord be with you all. 17 HERE IS MY GREETING IN MY OWN HANDWRITING—PAUL. I DO THIS IN ALL MY LETTERS TO PROVE...