Corpus-Paul

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 05:43 AM 5/7/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear List,
>
>Thesis: Paul's injunction in Romans 13 that Christian's should obey the
governing authorities is naive and biased by the fact that he was a Roman
citizen.  His naivete was supremely demonstrated by the fact that Caesar, to
whom so he so confidently appealed, had him executed for no reason at all. 

Um, not really.  Paul appealed because it was his right- not because he
believed he would be acquitted.

> One may detect his great disillusionment in the reading of 2 Timothy. 

Surely you dont mean to suggest that Paul wrote 2 Tim, do you?

>One will also wish to consider the fact that the Romans also executed
Jesus.  Appeal to the NT regarding submission to government authority is
finally ideologically based.

No- it wasnt ideology.  It was a desire for survival.

best,

Jim

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Jim West, ThD
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Quartz Hill School of Theology- Adjunct Prof. of Bible

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