Corpus-Paul

[Jim West <jwest AT highland.net>]

At 02:32 PM 7/1/00 -0400, you wrote:

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>Also I think that Paul adumbrates Jesus' voluntary self-offering pretty
>clearly in Romans 5:7-8.  I see this as quite consistent with Markan and
>Johannine theology.  A good question would be whether this is Pauline or
>prepauline.  Compare 1 Cor 15:3-4 in what Paul unmistakably marks as
>prepauline tradition: the necessity of Jesus' death "for our sins"
>"according to the scriptures."

are you saying paul thought jesus would never die had he not been executed?
this is, in my view, the rebirth of an inhuman, gnostic jesus.

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