Posted on 02/18/2005 9:09:38 PM PST by wolfman
Real Old Stuff Ping.
"The Bible does not state how Paul died. Many scholars believe he was beheaded in Rome in about the A.D. mid-60s during the reign of Roman Emperor Nero."
That should be easy to prove or disprove.
The Vatican is usually extremely cautious about such matters. But very interesting. I look forward to more follow-up details.
Asked this on another thread with no response, so will try again. If they've found Paul, what will they do with the so called skull of Paul they claimed to have prior to this. Or is this just the latest largely unfounded claim used as distraction?
And what the point of such an exercise?
Heh, you'd have a hard time proving that one historically.
---If they've found Paul, what will they do with the so called skull of Paul they claimed to have prior to this.---
Declare a miracle?
Who's got the "skull" of Paul? The RCC?
This will spark a huge increase in tourism in Rome.
Tomorrow they'll find James buried under a toilet. And shock and amazement will set in as we find they claimed 300 years ago to have his legbone under an alter on the other side of the planet or something. Most of this stuff is just puff looking for some superficial grant of authority based on appearances. That's all it ever has been. And if they find Paul on the other side of Rome next year, we'll sweep this event aside and pretend that this never happened. In the meantime, they'll talk out of both sides of their mouth in order to take the good appearances for what they can get out of them while dancing around the obvious and letting everyone think what they will... In the meantime, they'll charge a buck a person to let people file past and kiss the legbone of some long dead slave that died in Nero's circus for all we know. Vatican Hill is, afterall, a cemetary used to bury the dead from Nero's circus - a mass grave for slaves as it were. As a result, they'ed all date to the first century. I'm so used to reading about the long history of this sort of fraud by this group, I'm understandably cynical; so, if you're offended, I really don't care. LOL. Not that I intend to be offensive; but, really.. This ranks right up there with 'an angel named moron came and delivered me a set of golden plates with never before seen or heard of writing on it that ...'
ROFL. Stop it. It would be, though, wouldn't it. I never knew of Paul being two faced.. two headed would constitute a miracle - or a hitherto unreported birthdefect that I would imagine would have wound him up in Caesar's freak collection.
I have always said I'd never trust a religion with an angel named Moron. Put 'er there.
Spoken like Luther himself! :^)
nor sit in the seat of the scoffers
That has been the claim, along with piles of others. Their long history of claiming these things is pretty bad.. embarrassing even.. But , they've mastered the art of plausible deniability. They say just enough to let the 'faithful to the clergy' get the wrong impression, abuse that for profit, for superficial claims to authority, etc, then if disproven, they carefully stand aside and say 'well, we never said...' There are whole sections of books and whole books written on the subject. One, by this rabid guy named Joseph Wheless is even web published.
> Filippi said the tomb should not be opened merely
> to satisfy curiosity as to whether Paul's remains
> still are there.
This is just a negotiating ploy. If they exhibit too much
excitement about the discovery, it will become too
expensive to hire Geraldo to host the TV special about it.
LOL. Sorry. This stuff just tends to get me riled because so many are misled with it. I'd never trust a religion with an angel named Moron either, though LOL.
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