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  • From: "Stevan Davies" <miser17 AT epix.net>
  • To: corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: Paul as Good and Nice Guy
  • Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 13:13:42 -0500



> From: Licia Kuenning
> On other lists--and often off them, for that matter---I am
> constantly running into people who "do not like Paul."
> In most cases I think it has nothing to do with Paul, as
> many of these people know next to nothing about him.
> He has simply been elected scapegoat for everything
> people dislike about their culture.

I myself have long suspected that people who "do not like
Paul" often are people who "do not like Jesus" but who
find the eternal consequences of that position unacceptable
and so settle on Paul as the one to resent.

Steve Davies
College Misericordia




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