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From: ellis@spar.UUCP (Michael Ellis)
Newsgroups: net.religion.christian
Subject: Re: Whats wrong with this eqation? (Paul=Jesus)
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Date: Thu, 11-Apr-85 23:59:09 EST
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From Robert D. Zarcone:

>I constantly see people using the writings of Paul to support or
>attack a stand.  This has always bothered me because there are some
>things in Paul's writings that I can't accept.  Some even seem to
>contradict the words of Jesus in the Gospels...
>I have this problem with putting the words of Paul on an
>equal ground with those of Jesus.  Comments? (what a silly question!)

    I, too, have difficulty with most of Paul's writings. As somebody
    in this newsgroup recently remarked, `Paul was hardly a free-thinker' 
    -- what an understatement! 
    
    And one cannot blame the translators. In Greek, his words are
    often MORE severe than they seem in the English translations
    I've encountered.

    The huge portion of the New Testament written by Paul strikes me
    as the most powerful motivation I know for not being a
    `fundamentalist' -- by this I mean someone who rejects all writings
    of the middle ages and derives everything from the Bible -- since
    many of the best Catholic theological philosophers are far more
    palatable than Paul.
    
    BTW, the so-called `Fundamentalist Revival' now taking place seems to
    be a misnomer to me. Don't most Falwell-types accept Catholic
    dogma up to approximately the Protestant era?  Is it not true that
    these same Falwell-types consider the more unusual sects, such as
    the Jehovah's Witnesses (who seem like fundamentalists in the truest
    sense of the word, and for whom I have an odd sort of respect),
    to be too weird? Or am I very mistaken?

    And does anyone know of any Christian sects that reject everything except
    the 4 gospels?

Xristos Anesti

-michael