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  • From: "Chris Cutler" <Chrisc AT powercall.co.uk>
  • To: "Corpus-paul" <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Paul's conversion & Gal. 1:16 Subjective or Objective
  • Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1999 00:01:51 +0100


George Blaisdell:

[snip]
>
> Certainly his associates cannot see Christ living within Paul with their
> eyes. They can see what he does, and what happens subjectively within
> themselves in his presence, but the Source is not visible to normal
> vision. How could it be?
>
> And likewise for Paul. Is not his experience of Christ living within
> him by definition subjective?
>
[snip]

One interpretation would be that Christ is not the historical Jesus but a
state of high spiritual consciousness of which HJ was the example par
exellence. Christ living in Paul would mean that he to had (or he
considered that he had) reached a similar level of consciousness.

-------------------------
Chris Cutler
"Auditeur Libre"

What liberates is the knowledge of who we were, what we became; where we
were, whereinto we have been thrown; whereto we speed, wherefrom we are
redeemmed; what birth is, and what rebirth." (Exc. Theod. 78.2)





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