To: kosta50; irishtenor
You spent many posts detailing your beliefs that Paul leaned towards gnosticism.
Are you recanting that opinion now?
3,486 posted on
08/21/2007 1:29:01 AM PDT by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg; irishtenor
You spent many posts detailing your beliefs that Paul leaned towards gnosticism. Are you recanting that opinion now? No. He subordains Chirst to the Father and the spirit to the Father (whiom he calls "God"); he claims secret knowledge that was "downloaded" in an instant, etc. and many other things that suggest Gnostic leanings, but the Church doe not condemn him as it condemned Origen. The Church reads Paul differently, and I defer to the collective wisdiom and knowledge of the Church in the extreme, but I am not fully convicned.
3,489 posted on
08/21/2007 1:56:33 AM PDT by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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