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  • From: Licia Kuenning <Licia AT compuserve.com>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: RE: Harmony of Paul's teaching
  • Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 20:35:17 -0500


Jim West writes,

>>> It is for no small reason that Paul is seen as the founder
>>> of Christianity-
>>
>> I for one don't see him that way. If Christianity didn't
>> exist before Paul took it up, what was he persecuting?
>
> he was persecuting a schism within judaism.

Okay, I guess it could be described that way; but that doesn't
mean it wasn't Christianity.in the common sense of the word.
I realize that the word "Christian" hadn't been coined yet--for
that matter, it wasn't a word that Paul ever used, in any of the
writings that have come down to us. But Paul said he
persecuted the church. He obviously perceived a continuity
between the community he had formerly persecuted and the
community he was ministering to. Call that community what
you like--Paul wasn't its founder.

Licia Kuenning

Licia AT compuserve.com
kuenning-licia AT voicenet.com




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