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- From: wiggins@hurricane.cs.odu.edu (Samuel E Wiggins)
- Subject: Re: Problems with Paul's history of Jesus
- In-Reply-To: pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us's message of 19 Nov 1992 00: 44:33 UTC
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- In article <fVs9KXt@quack.sac.ca.us> pharvey@quack.sac.ca.us (Paul Harvey) writes:
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- gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo) writes:
- >The argument over whether Christ or the Gospels or Paul state authoritatively
- >that Christ was the Son of God is less interesting than the way in which
- >Christ himself approached the issue.
-
- Jesus spoke in Aramaic and we don't have a record of his speaches in
- Aramaic so we have no idea what he himself actually said. Case closed.
- For all we know, the Christian gospels in Greek may have been written
- or edited by Paul and so we are dependent on Paul's history of Jesus
- since there are no other accounts of Jesus, if he even existed as an
- actual historical figure.
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- Unless Paul was telling the truth. I'm not saying he does, I merely
- accede the possibility.
- BTW, why so skeptical that he actually existed? Hahaha. If one believes,
- as I assume you do, that Paul's arguments are wrong, why do you also
- have to question whether he even lived? Won't the truth eventually come
- out?
- Also, supposing Paul did exist in the way presented in the NT (as we find
- him writing about himself in several places), he was fluent in both
- Greek and Aramaic, remember? So were many of the disciples or their letter
- writers. One could reasonably assume that a fluent speaker of two languages
- could come up with a close translation from one to the other.
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- >Another difficulty with the fundamentalist (and also main stream) view of
- >Christ is the idea that knowledge and acceptance of him can only come
- >within the bounds of this one life on earth. The more I read and
- >participate in this forum the more convinced I become that Christianity
- >needs desparately to come to terms with the reality of repeated earth
- >lives, and destiny (karma) as fundamental to the central principles of
- >Christianity, in other words to understand it in terms of the reality
- >of Christ's incarnation, death and resurrection.
-
- Are you sure you don't mean reincarnation instead of resurrection?
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- Yeah. Reincarnation implies new body, new physical form. Jesus, though
- it was made complete and "glorified," kept his old physical body. Remember
- the nail scars shown to Thomas? He didn't come back as a cow. And,
- reincarnation implies a progression of continuing life essence, through
- one form to another, hopefully getting better and eventually achieving
- oneness in bliss with the transcendent, etc. etc. Jesus as God existed with
- God the Father since the beginning (already at one, so to speak), and divested
- Himself of bliss for awhile (not because He did anything wrong). He gave up
- what reincarnation strives for, which is unheard of in that philosophy.
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