Loading...In this post I give an executive summary (“At a Glance”) of the Deutero-Pauline letters (2 Thessalonians, Ephesians, and Colossians) and then provide some questions for deeper reflection on these books that claim to be written by Paul but are widely considered by critical scholars to be penned by later followers claiming to be him.
AT A GLANCE: The Deutero-Pauline Epistles
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Pauline or non-Pauline letters, how much does it matter?
JS Spong has written a good bit about who was Paul in the first place?
An arrogant fanatic who needed to know everything. So what if he had a vision of Christ. A lot of people have had visions of Christ and other holy figures. Does this mean that they are right all the time or that they know it all and everything?
I’m glad that Christians have a choice as to whether we can eat bacon-cheeseburgers or not. Does this mean we have to make an infallible saint out of Paul and all his other ideas?
One would think people could solve the kosher-non-kosher/cheeseburger debate by some other means than making an infallible saint out of this guy.
He has to appear sure of himself because he is a failure. The Greek kid in Jerusalem. Then after Antipas Is dismissed he is nearly killed & has to slouch on back to Tarsus with the Jesus message.
Paul is a real conundrum. I often think that he, along with some other passages in the NT, do more harm than good.
st Paul didn’t walk the walk Jesus & his chosen disciples did for 3 years. He was educated & literate.
the NT deceives the world of what Jesus & his original disciples taught & experienced.
I lived similarly in China, barely literate, counting on the decency of my neighbors for 25 years