Bible Scholars: Paul’s Third Letter To Corinthians Was Rejected For Clearly Being AI-Generated

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OXFORD — After much deliberation, an international team of Bible scholars has recently determined that an alleged third letter of Paul to the Corinthians was rejected for being obviously AI-generated.

According to Lee Stokes, the lead researcher and expert in Koine Greek, the style, composition, and syntax of pseudo-Third Corinthians were patently AI-generated.

"We first started to get a bit suspicious when we read the ending to the letter," Stokes told reporters. "The last words of the epistle are: 'Here's a draft for III Corinthians which reflects Paul's pastoral heart and his call for the Corinthians to endure in faith despite the challenges they face. Does that resonate with the kind of ending you had in mind?' That, and the numerous illustrations of an eight-fingered Titus started to raise a few eyebrows around the office."

Other scholars confirmed that the epistle was almost certainly an AI deepfake.

"As it turns out, Paul didn't usually include phrases like, 'Would you like me to find a more fitting quotation to prove your point?' in his other letters," said Simone Crimpe, a paleographer. "That sort of thing is a dead giveaway."

At publishing time, researchers had also determined that a series of letters purportedly by Peter claiming that he always outran John were also AI-generated.

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[Tell It Right]

I new 3 Corinthians was an AI fake when it ended with "Greet one another with Hershey's Kisses and all of God's people send you Happy Holiday greetings".

(See 2 Corinthians 13:12-13 for the satire source)

[tet68]

It was obviously fake just from the use of the term,
“Rich Corinthian Leather”...

[EvilCapitalist]

I thought it said “Be sure to drink your Ovaltine?”

[Hebrews 11:6]

Should have known: Hezekiah 3:5 reads,
"I say unto you, beware the fallen horsemen of Tarsus."

[KrisKrinkle]

I read in Post 6 that the article about Paul’s Third Letter To Corinthians being Rejected For Clearly Being AI-Generated was AI generated and unreliable.

[Political Junkie Too]

I thought it was a fake when the back side of the letter had my lucky numbers on it.

-PJ

[af_vet_1981]

The Apostle to the Gentiles refers to an earlier epistle to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 5:9

I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

The Lost Letters of Saint Paul, and How They Were Lost

Why, then, were these lost letters lost? The answer to that is quite simple. Paul probably died around 64/65AD. Very shortly afterward, during the early years of the Jewish Revolt against Rome (66-73) savage inter-communal violence broke out across the Levant, and in Egypt. Jews attacked Gentiles and slaughtered them in large numbers. Gentiles did the same to Jews, eradicating their communities and settlements that had lasted for centuries. Indeed, the accounts of these massacres in Josephus’s Jewish War are horrendous to the point of being unreadable. If we look at the places described as marked by the most savage violence, where Jewish communities were extirpated, several of the worst massacres and orgies of destruction occurred in cities mentioned in Acts. Moreover, these almost certainly contained followers of Jesus, who would have retained letters by Paul. Those letters would have been lost when Jewish quarters were burned out. In contrast, no such massacres are known in Corinth, Philippi, Thessaloniki, and the other centers where letters were preserved.

[Tell It Right]

I’ve often read about the lost Corinthian letter and that the ones we have should be named “2nd Corinthians” and “3rd Corinthians”.

[Raycpa]

There are likely more than 2, even 1 makes a reference to a previous letter

5:9 I wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people—