Corpus-Paul

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Frank Hughs says,

<<  Extremely interesting is Romans 1:3-4 where Jesus is Son of
 David "according to the flesh," and Son of God "according to the spirit
 of holiness" (= the Holy Spirit) "since" (taking EK temporally!) "his
 resurrection from the dead." >>

and in a later posting,

<<Note that when Paul
recounts prepauline tradition in 1 Cor 15 he tells of the early
Christian tradition about Jesus, centering on his death and
resurrection.  In 2 Cor 5:16 he says he isn't interested in the pre-Good
Friday/Easter Jesus (Jesus "according to the flesh") because it doesn't
matter.  He seems not to know about the sayings of Jesus, such as we
find in the gospels, or not to care.>>

    Don't these two go together? As far as Paul is concerned, it is the 
ascent/empowerment (however he would have unpacked this) of the resurrection 
which empowers Jesus. Linking this with the hymn in Philippians 2:6-11, it is 
the restoration, with interest, of what the pre-existent Jesus had before his 
incarnation. On a theology like this, the pre-Good Friday Jesus is 
irrelevant, precisely because he is powerless.


Regards,

Robert Brenchley

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