Originally posted by Hypatia_Alexandria
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Your inner child is duly noted.
In Galatians chapter one Paul writes [NRSVUE translation]
Paul an apostle—sent neither by human commission nor from human authorities but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead ....for I did not receive it from a human source, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
In other words his experience is theologically authoritative and supersedes any of the views of the men who knew a flesh and blood Jew and he admits, by implication, that his teaching differed from the tradition of the original apostles of Jerusalem; and he defends its novelty by claiming for it a direct divine origin.
He continues:
Again he is referring to himself as the one who called them and then makes a rather disparaging comment about any other gospel i.e. the teachings of those men back in Jerusalem who knew the real flesh and blood Jesus.
In chapter two he writes:
Once again he is very dismissive of those "supposed to be acknowledged leaders" and reasserts that his gospel [i.e. his allegedly divinely revealed gospel] is superior to the teachings of those men who had known Jesus of Nazareth.
Why "interpolation"? [a passage introduced into a text] Or did you intend to write "interpretation"?
Rather a sweeping comment and [as usual] totally unsupported
In Galatians chapter one Paul writes [NRSVUE translation]
Paul an apostle—sent neither by human commission nor from human authorities but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead ....for I did not receive it from a human source, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
In other words his experience is theologically authoritative and supersedes any of the views of the men who knew a flesh and blood Jew and he admits, by implication, that his teaching differed from the tradition of the original apostles of Jerusalem; and he defends its novelty by claiming for it a direct divine origin.
He continues:
I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel— 7 not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are confusing you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ.
Again he is referring to himself as the one who called them and then makes a rather disparaging comment about any other gospel i.e. the teachings of those men back in Jerusalem who knew the real flesh and blood Jesus.
In chapter two he writes:
Then I laid before them (though only in a private meeting with the acknowledged leaders) the gospel that I proclaim among the gentiles, in order to make sure that I was not running, or had not run, in vain. . 4 But because of false brothers and sisters secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us— 5 we did not submit to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might always remain with you. 6 And from those who were supposed to be acknowledged leaders (what they actually were makes no difference to me; God shows no partiality)—those leaders contributed nothing to me.
Once again he is very dismissive of those "supposed to be acknowledged leaders" and reasserts that his gospel [i.e. his allegedly divinely revealed gospel] is superior to the teachings of those men who had known Jesus of Nazareth.
Why "interpolation"? [a passage introduced into a text] Or did you intend to write "interpretation"?
Rather a sweeping comment and [as usual] totally unsupported
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