Which . . . MIGHT be one thing
IF
Father asks one to choose between vanilla vs chocolate icecream.
WHEN FATHER is FATHER GOD and Paul is HIS CHIEF NEW TESTAMENT SCRIBE, I suspect telling God that HE is
—unwise or
—thick-headed or
—stupid for selecting Paul for the task . . .
welllllllll . . .
the implications of such cheekiness in the face of God could be markedly different than those of choosing icecream.
killing the prophets is nothing new, nor is despising them
Does anyone here think it’s possible to bully me into like St. Paul? Or to scare me into it? I don’t like the man revealed by his writing. I do not think he was very tightly wrapped; I think he may have been insane. His level of sophistication does not impress me.
If anyone here thinks that I am going to knuckle under and praise St. Paul, they are sadly mistaken. I first read him seriously 35 years ago. As Dr. E. has said, those asleep in the Lord are DEAD, you know, like St. Mary. I doubt that Jesus Christ, Risen Son of the Living God and my Lord and Savior, will send me to hell for dissing St. Paul, dead man.
It’s a crying shame that I must agree with Quix et al on St. Paul or else submit to insinuations that I was drinking when I read the scriptures. Evidently, that’s the best he can come up with right now.
I despise St. Paul. Presbyterians worship him. I prefer, above all books, the Gospels but I am not ignorant of the other books. I’m not that wild about Jeremiah either, frankly.
People who WORSHIP the NT tend to get stuck in the Pauline epistles and criticize those who don’t, in my experience.