-Caveat Lector-
You know what I think Paul's defect was. Now I am no scholar so don't be
offended, but I have been reading between the lines of some information
lately, and I think he may have been a homosexual.
He seems to be anti women. He seemed to be very jealous of Mary Magdalene
and his teachings belittled the role of woman.
The thorn in his side may have meant his back side..
>From what I have read Paul was a prick..
Now only my opinion so please don't get upset.
Peter
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----- Original Message -----
From: Das GOAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 11:47 PM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Politically Correct Jesus
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> In a message dated 99-12-14 14:08:00 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >This is also why historians often disagree about the authenticity of
Paul's
> >writings, and often renounce his writings, because the handwriting
varies
> >in more than one copy of the manuscript notations.
>
> Beg to differ. No manuscript of any book in the New Testament is --or
ever
> was, in historical times-- in the "author's" own hand. All were copies of
> copies of copies, ad infinitum, of scribes. Also, historians dispute the
> authenticity of several of "Paul's" writings not because of any
graphological
> differences but because of rather glaring differences in the criteria used
> for determining authorship -- vocabulary, grammar, mode of exposition, in
> short "style." Shakespeare did not write or think like Hemingway.
>
> For my next two cents, I've read all the best scholarly studies of Paul,
and
> the honest conclusion is that no one knows what Paul's "defect" was.
There
> aren't any "outside" sources in history, even in the Church, that
described
> his appearance. All we have to work with is the internal evidence Paul
> himself gives in his writings, and those are not specific at all, beyond
> references to some "thorn in his side," physically or behaviorally, which
> tended to disrupt his self-control, leading to results he considered
> "sinful." The consensus is that, IF it even WAS a PHYSICAL problem, it
may
> have been epilepsy.
>
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