12-03-2007, 07:46 PM
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Originally Posted by aa5874
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Originally Posted by Solitary Man
Don't you understand that you don't know what you're talking about? There weren't multiple Pauls. Biblical scholarship claims that there are seven genuine epistles: Romans, I & II Corinthians, Galatians, I Thessalonians, Philippians, and Philemon. The other letters, based on stylistic evidence and evidence from content, are thought to be forgeries, people writing in the name of Paul. And lastly there is interpolation and redaction/editing from people who are not Paul in Paul's letters, authentic and non.
Classical scholarship also claims that the three books on war, Bellum Alexandrinum, Bellum Africanum, and Bellum Hispaniense, were not written by Caesar, even though they've came down through tradition as being written by him. Does that negate Caesar's existence? No. Your criteria for determining existence is bunk.
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These "Pauls" are not in any history book, they cannot negate any of the Caesars written by Suetonius, Tacitus, Josephus, Philo, Pliny the Elder, Pliny the Younger, and others.
Your "Paul" is not known or written about by anyone outside the Church and the NT.
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So what?
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