Clivedurdle

My New English Bible - I cannot see an online version - has the term sphere.

It also has a series of if statements.

I believe Paul is writing as a geometer, attempting a geography and star map of how he understands the universe with a creator god and a jesus christ saving it all.

Blake's famous picture of God with compass points is an equivalent image.

Has anyone looked at Paul as attempting to bring together his new judaism with Greek geometric thinking in the tradition of Euclid and Archimedes?

Neo pythagorianism again?

Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer? (or via: amazon.co.uk) by Ian Stewart, Martin Golubitsky

Instead of is God a geometer I am asking are the writings of Paul really a symbiosis of Greek mathematical thinking and Judaic messiah thinking? A very interesting beastie!

The cross - as the central point of the circle - then has very interesting implications.