Originally posted by Tassman
View Post
Thought I add this link to Hurtado on this subject: https://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2...cal-questions/
In in, he says: "we’re exploring the emergence of ....... “the Kyrios cult”, i.e., the treatment of Jesus as in some way sharing in divine glory and reverence.
........These letters {the seven letters of the Apostle Paul that are almost universally regarded as genuinely written by him} scarcely devote much space to teaching christological beliefs and devotional practices; instead they presuppose them. Which means that these beliefs and practices emerged and had become traditional well before these letters. .........."
Hurtado, speaking of Paul's conversion, writes: "Paul thereafter joined the Jesus-movement the most likely conclusion is that he came to accept a view of Jesus that he had previously opposed and found unacceptable. It wasn’t Paul who invented a glorified Jesus; it was his predecessors among the Jewish believers whom he had previously regarded as promoting a dangerous set of beliefs.".
.........Hurtado sums up "the evidence indicates that the conviction that God had glorified Jesus and given him divine honor and status erupted first among Jewish believers in Judea."
And in another post, https://larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2...cient-context/
Hurtado writes, "........earliest Christian devotion a distinctive “dyadic” shape, with God and Jesus both featuring centrally in beliefs and worship. Over against the polytheistic pattern of the larger pagan world, early Christian teaching advocated an exclusivity, with solely one God, and this same exclusivity applied to the one Lord Jesus....."
Interesting reading.
Comment