apostle paul

In the NT there are 13 Epistles under the name of Paul and a character with the same name [Paul] is also found in Acts of the Apostles. It is said that NT Pauline Epistles were written before the NT Gospels because they contain very little about the Jesus character as mentioned in the Gospels...

When one examines writings of antiquity it is quickly and easily realised that the entire Pauline Corpus is a compilation of very late writings which were unknown up to 175-180 CE or at least after "True Discourse" attributed to Celsus as found in "Origen's "Against Celsus". The very first...

The evangelical Christian concept of spiritual warfare can be traced almost entirely to the sixth chapter of Paul's epistle to the Ephesians, an epistle whose validity as genuinely from the pen of the apostle Paul has been disputed. The section on spiritual warfare begins at Eph. 6:10 with an...

I'm just starting this thread so as not to further sub-hijack another thread where I called R.G. Price's article "Jesus Myth: The Case Against Historical Jesus" a piece of crank scholarship. I'm just going to go through his points, in order. It'll take me a while. If other people chime in, I...

DOC has started a number of threads which all raise a seemingly inconsequential point. (Was peter in rome, was Lief Erikkson christian, Communism better as christian,...). Whenever asked, "So what?", the question goes unanswered. I wish to start this thread by presenting my believe as to...

Quite certain, well that's what the New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967) says in its article on Peter "the apostle". You know, the Peter who weakly denied Christ 3 times to a woman. But then it was reported he saw something about a week later (and this gave him unusual boldness). Apparently, that...

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2704362 Could it be for real? It kinda freaks me out...any time someone from the Bible is proven real it worries me.

As the title says, Paul was a gnostic. This is significant because most modern christians aren't. In fact, modern christians are biblical literalists who considered gnostics to be heretics... and in the earlier centuries after the advent of Christianity, heretics usually ended up biting the...

Since I'm not a good judge on honest websites, could someone give me a link to them ( if they exist ) ?

Our local paper has a weekly religion column. The last few weeks, the columnist has been writing about the use of myth and symbol in religion. Today, he finally comes out with Paul did not believe in a literal physical resurrection. Here's the punchline: There are going to be letters...