Corpus-Paul

[Edgar Krentz <ekrentz AT lstc.edu>]

This question seems very similar to the query, would Adam have died 
had he and Eve not sinned? It is kind of going behind the beyond, a 
good speculation much like the ancient fallacy of The Heap: 
unanswerable and unsolvable.

>  > 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.
>
> It seems so to me too.
> In the ane immortality was the difference between being human and being a
> god. To say Jesus would have lived forever implies Jesus is a god, not
> human. But it seems that Dunn is saying that never to sin means never to
> taste death. Since Jesus never sinned, ergo, he never would have tasted
> death unless he decided to die.
> But I would have thought that this decision to die occurred when he decided
> to be human, prior to becoming human. But Dunn says that Christ was not
> pre-existent. So he made this decision while a human. So I am at a loss
> here.
> How could a human being -- even if sinless -- make a decision not to ever
> die? Unless I don't understand, entirely possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Liz
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