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Originally Posted by T@T
Who the hell else could have wrote it?. Jesus F'n Christ :roll eyes:
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Leave it to T@T to completely fail to grasp what is going on here. What the hell are you talking about? The point I was making has absolutely NOTHING to do with who actually did or did not write the NT documents. What is important to the interpretation of the NT here is twofold: 1) who the interpreter
thinks wrote the text, and 2) the significance of the
act of writing itself. In other words, even though Christians believe that the Apostle Paul—a perfectly ordinary man—wrote several letters now contained in the NT, this does not mean that there are also not many who equate his activity with a form of divine dictation. This is still true today, but perhaps was even more pronounced in antiquity when the act of writing was believed by many people to be a sort of "supernatural" ability.
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Originally Posted by T@T
Here's a concept, nothing personal but all you so called biblical scholars should just expose the BS that is religion...period, and maybe just maybe this planet will have a chance for my children's... children's.
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Yeah, why would I take any of that personally?
I'm not even sure about what it is that you want here. What is "the BS that is religion," and how might we biblical scholars expose it?...
As usual, I suspect your response is bred from a total ignorance about the current study of religion that takes place in the academy in the modern world. Maybe educate yourself a bit about what it is that religious scholars do before spouting off about what you think they should be doing.