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Where are the epistles written to?
Ephesus - Diana Collosians - Mithras Thessalonians - Serapsis and Isis Galatians - Druids And of course to the Romans - the imperial cult. And Rome was not a place - like Bognor Regis - but an idea that lasted two and a half thousand years according to some estimates. Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and to god that which is god's is a blasphemous idea - caesar was a god! Coincidence? |
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Emperor's were deified by the senate after their death, if they were held to be worthy. In any case, Jesus certainly wouldn't have viewed Augustus as a god. Jews were monotheists and Augustus wasn't the one. Same goes for Paul |
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You are not mistaken. The east was used to the idea that the King was a god, (Persia, Egypt, etc). Naturally emprerors didn't spend much time debunking the idea, but nonetheless, Roman emperors were not really viewed as gods.
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I am exploring a question - why those cities? And is "to the Romans" to a city?
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Has anyone asked if the Pauline letters are a deliberately constructed attack on paganism? |
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I know this sounds ikeaist - finding parallels, but on Radio 4 someone commented that Tony Blair had had his crown of laurels replaced with a crown of thorns!
Is the NT and Paul a deliberately constructed argument about this paradigm shift away from the true gods (possibly earlier than Constantine?) |
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