• Optional@lemmy.worldOP
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    3 months ago

    Point of order; it took a few centuries to really get the anti-Jewish swing in progress. If it had been in full swing earlier on, there’d be no old testament.

    The fact that Paul was a Jewish Gnostic is just - bonus.

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      3 months ago

      After leaving the church, I’ve always found Saul/Paul’s conversion story a bit suspect. So you mean to tell me that you’re just out on the road one day, going from town to town persecuting Jesus-cultists, and a beam of light from heaven strikes you and tell you that what you actually need to do is join the Jesus-cultists, but spend the rest of your life assiduously walking back every radical thing they believe? Suuuure. I think maybe ol’ Saul just saw a movement with a power vacuum at the top and thought he should be one to fill it.

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        3 months ago

        Well the character “Jesus” is so clearly a continuation / rewrite of solar deity characters I think Paul must have had some task to “sell” it, but who/why/how I can’t speculate.

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      3 months ago

      Are you implying that Christians are responsible for the preservation of the book they culturally appropriated?