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Ben C Smith · 01-26-2006, 05:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Toto

Let us not seek to avoid facing the force of the contradiction between the notion of Paul's receiving the gospel he preached from earlier tradents and the protestation in Gal. 1:1, 11-12 that "I did not receive it from man."

There is a contradiction here only if we assume that what Paul writes of in Galatians 1.11-12 (verse 1 only asserts that he was not sent by man) is the same thing as what he writes of in 1 Corinthians 11.23. Given that he calls it gospel in Galatians but not in 1 Corinthians, is that a safe assumption?

Ben.

Spincracker · 01-27-2006, 05:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Ben C Smith

There is a contradiction here only if we assume that what Paul writes of in Galatians 1.11-12 (verse 1 only asserts that he was not sent by man) is the same thing as what he writes of in 1 Corinthians 11.23. Given that he calls it gospel in Galatians but not in 1 Corinthians, is that a safe assumption?

Ben.

That's a very good point and was looking at the same thing...Paul was clearly talking about two categorially different subjects, so it does not make sense to extrapolate what he said in Galatians to the rest.

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