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Old 03-11-2012, 10:51 AM   #561
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And equally, there is nothing in Acts or the Paulines saying that he didn't go there.
The same goes for India and China.
And that's not answering what aa initially said (and still keeps up):
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Now, I don't want to embarrass you but, I repeat, it is claimed in ACTS of the Apostles that Paul was in SPAIN and BRITAIN.
You need to read your Bible.
Anyway, thanks Sheshbazzar, you confirmed that aa was wrong (and you are a hostile witness!).
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Anyway, thanks Sheshbazzar, you confirmed that aa was wrong (and you are a hostile witness!).
Well, you have IMPLODED once more.

See http://www.sinaiticus.com/

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6 And Paul preached mightily in Spain, and great multitudes believed and were converted, for they perceived he was an apostle sent from God.

7 And they departed out of Spain, and Paul and his company finding a ship in Armorica sailing unto Britain, they were therein, and passing along the South Coast, they reached a port called Raphinus.

8 Now when it was voiced abroad that the Apostle had landed on their coast, great multitudes of the inhabitants met him, and they treated Paul courteously and he entered in at the east gate of their city, and lodged in the house of an Hebrew and one of his own nation. ...
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aa, see my answer here:
http://www.freeratio.org/showthread....67#post7100167
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You have confirmed that virtually all sources which mention Paul are forgeries, fraudulent or fiction.

Now, please tell me when the letters from Paul to Seneca were forged???

Can you tell me when the letters from Seneca to Paul were forged???

Can you tell me when the letters to Timothy and Titus were forged???

Paul of Tarsus and his letters were fabricated.

Those who fabricated Paul and his letters committed a Crime Against Humanity.
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You have confirmed that virtually all sources which mention Paul are forgeries, fraudulent or fiction.
And where did I confirm that?
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Now, please tell me when the letters from Paul to Seneca were forged???
Can you tell me when the letters from Seneca to Paul were forged???
Can you tell me when the letters to Timothy and Titus were forged???
Because these letters were forged does not mean all letters from Paul were forged.
Because some alleged memoirs of Hitler was forged does not mean that 'Mein Kampf' was forged.
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You have confirmed that virtually all sources which mention Paul are forgeries, fraudulent or fiction.
And where did I confirm that?
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Now, please tell me when the letters from Paul to Seneca were forged???
Can you tell me when the letters from Seneca to Paul were forged???
Can you tell me when the letters to Timothy and Titus were forged???
Because these letters were forged does not mean all letters from Paul were forged.
Because some alleged memoirs of Hitler was forged does not mean that 'Mein Kampf' was forged.
Because letters with the Paul were forged then all may have been forged. We cannot naively accept letters with the name Paul as authentic WITHOUT corroboration.

Because virtually every source of antiquity that mentioned Paul is either a forgery, fraudulent or fiction then we cannot naively accept letters with the name Paul as authentic and do so WITHOUT corroboration.

Because the Church itself does NOT know when the Pauline writer really lived then letters under the name Paul cannot be BLINDLY accepted as authentic.

Letters under the name of Paul were UNKNOWN to Apologetic sources up to the mid 2nd century and UNKNOWN to the authors of the Short Ending gMrk and the author of gMatthew.

I can ONLY deal with the SURVIVING evidence.

Paul of Tarsus was a Fraud who lived in some other century under some other name or alias who gave the FALSE impression that he lived in the 1st century before c 70 CE and that he met apostles called Peter and James.

The apostles Peter and James did NOT even exist. They were ficitious characters in the Myth Fables of Jesus.
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Because letters with the Paul were forged then all may have been forged.
With your "may", you are allowing the possibility some letters are authentic. Congratulation! A step in the right direction. But then, in a flash, you change your mind.
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Letters under the name of Paul were UNKNOWN to Apologetic sources up to the mid 2nd century and UNKNOWN to the authors of the Short Ending gMrk and the author of gMatthew.
That's because you do not want to consider the Christology of gJohn (but rather you focus on gMatthew!) and 1Clement (not a forgery because the author does not name himself!). And maybe the author of the short ending of gMark did not want to consider Acts, for reasons I explained many times, some of them evidenced in Tertullian & Chrysostom's writings.
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Because the Church itself does NOT know when the Pauline writer really lived then letters under the name Paul cannot be BLINDLY accepted as authentic.
But the author of 'Acts' knew when Paul lived and, more vaguely, also the author of 1Clement.
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Paul of Tarsus was a Fraud who lived in some other century under some other name or alias who gave the FALSE impression that he lived in the 1st century before c 70 CE and that he met apostles called Peter and James.
The apostles Peter and James did NOT even exist. They were ficitious characters in the Myth Fables of Jesus.
Yes, I can hear the dominos falling: Peter and James did not exist, so Paul did not exist, so all named authors (like Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen) or unnamed who mentioned Paul, did not exist, so all authors who mentioned authors who mentioned Paul, did not exist. Oops, did I go too far? Where do we stop?
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...Yes, I can hear the dominos falling: Peter and James did not exist, so Paul did not exist, so all named authors (like Irenaeus, Tertullian, Origen) or unnamed who mentioned Paul, did not exist, so all authors who mentioned authors who mentioned Paul, did not exist. Oops, did I go too far? Where do we stop?
Oops, you don't seem to care about the evidence you ONLY want people to STOP saying things you don't like.

The Only way to stop me is to find EVIDENCE that can contradict me.

Please explain how Peter James and John could have seen the Transfiguration of Jesus?? Mark 9.2

Please explain how the disciples could have seen Jesus as he Walked on water?? Mark 6.48-49

Please explain how the disciples could have been VISITED by the resurrected Jesus??? John 20

There are NO credible non-apologetic sources for Jesus, the disciples and Paul.

Jesus was a Son of a Ghost so it is virtually impossible for such a character to have had actual disciples.

The Jesus story is a Myth Fable, not history.
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The Only way to stop me is to find EVIDENCE that can contradict me.
I did that often, but you raised the bar so high, that you will accept nothing. If you think just a mention of Paul is good enough to prove the whole text is forgery which has to be backdated by centuries, then of course nothing will go through by you.

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Please explain how Peter James and John could have seen the Transfiguration of Jesus?? Mark 9.2
Please explain how the disciples could have seen Jesus as he Walked on water?? Mark 6.48-49
Please explain how the disciples could have been VISITED by the resurrected Jesus??? John 20
Here we are again, confusing issues. Just because these things have been written, does not take away the existence of followers of an earthly Jesus. These ones were probably dead when that was written. They did not have any control on what would be said about what they experienced and saw.
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Jesus was a Son of a Ghost so it is virtually impossible for such a character to have had actual disciples.
Once again, confusing issue. This Son of God through conception with the Spirit came (was invented) at least 50 years after the crucifixion. Again that does not prevent HJ to have been an earthly human. And in these days, this kind of godly conception was believed fairly commonly among Jews and more so Gentiles. From my website with editing:
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The concept of having a god as a biological father was not new in the Hellenistic world. I quote here Tom Harpur's 'For Christ Sake':
"It is significant that about A.D. 250 Origen (185-254), one of the earliest great Christian scholars, answered attacks against the idea of the Virgin Birth by citing similar events in pagan stories of deities or semi-deities. ..." He then goes on to tell how when Plato was born, Ariston was hindered from having sexual intercourse with his mother until she had given birth to the child she had by the god Apollo. Origen's quarrel with Celsus (...) gives ample evidence that in those days anyone regarded as in any way extraordinary could be called "divine" and be the subject of stories not only of miraculous birth ..."

In Greek mythology, Zeus is often copulating with earthly women, including one virgin, Danaë, having offsprings like Perseus (from Danaë) and Hercules as a result.
The same can be said for other gods in those days: in Josephus' Ant., XVIII, III, 4, there is a detailed account about a real aristocratic Roman lady, Paulina, who gladly accepted (with her husband's consent!) to lay in the temple of Isis. That was because the priests told her the (Egyptian) god Anubis had fallen in love with her. After enjoying a night of sex in total darkness, and then raving about it with her friends, Paulina found out later she had been tricked by an amorous wealthy Roman, Mundus: he had bribed the priests, through his freed-woman, Ide.

According to Philo Judaeus of Alexandria (20B.C.E.-50C.E.), an illustrious, highly respected Hellenistic Jew, scholar, theologian, philosopher:
"Tamar, when she became pregnant of divine seeds, and did not know who it was who had sown them ..." (On the Change of Names, XXIII)
"For when she [Hannah] had become pregnant, having received the divine seed ..." (On the unchangeableness of God, ch. II)
"the angels of God went in unto the daughters of men, and they bore children unto them." (On the unchangeableness of God, ch. I)
The idea of a god impregnating a mortal woman was unheard of in Jewish literature. Philo was the first one to introduce it.

The godly conception involved the Holy Spirit (completely out of character for a spirit!) probably because that would not be respectable for "the Ancient in Days" (Da7:9), or too much "déjà vu"!
Or, as taken from Paul's 'Galatians', about the (promised by God) late (and only) pregnancy of Abraham's wife, resulting in the birth of Isaac, "the son born by the power of the Spirit" (Gal4:29).
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I did that often, but you raised the bar so high, that you will accept nothing. If you think just a mention of Paul is good enough to prove the whole text is forgery which has to be backdated by centuries, then of course nothing will go through by you.
You are NOT credible. You have NOT at all presented any EVIDENCE from a credible non-apologetic source to support anything that you have claimed about Paul. NONE--ZERO--NIL.

I DETEST when you make statements that are WHOLLY erroneous and mis-leading.

It is NO SECRET that there is ZERO support for anything Pauline from non-apologetic sources of antiquity.
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