It’s fascinating, right? As soon as you ditch the concept of “all these perfectly-selected books are God’s Word and people were just writing it down”, it’s incredibly clear just how much of the New Testament is just Paul telling everybody how it’s gonna be from now on.
The concept of Pauline Christianity is irritating to evangelicals because it implies that things could ever have been some other kind of way.
It’s fascinating, right? As soon as you ditch the concept of “all these perfectly-selected books are God’s Word and people were just writing it down”, it’s incredibly clear just how much of the New Testament is just Paul telling everybody how it’s gonna be from now on.
The concept of Pauline Christianity is irritating to evangelicals because it implies that things could ever have been some other kind of way.