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- From: jwest AT highland.net
- To: Corpus-paul <corpus-paul AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?
- Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 08:58:53 +0000 (GMT)
Gentiles were attracted to Christianity because:
1- it was a mystery religion (in the dress Paul gave it) which promised
redemption.
2- it used language familiar to the man on the streets. (salvation,
fellowship,
bloody atonement, etc.)
3- it promised life in eternity (which had to beat life here in their abject
poverty and misery).
in short- Pauline Christianity (which is the source of Gentile Christianity)
was an amalgamation of all the best stuff in popular greco-roman religion-- a
hybrid if you will. as such it was able to outlast the other mysteries
because
it was a little bit of all of them. (mithraism, etc.)
best
jim
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Jim West, ThD
Adjunct Professor of Biblical Studies
Quartz Hill School of Theology
Biblical Studies Resources
http://web.infoave.net/~jwest
-
Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?,
David C. Hindley, 06/05/2002
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re:Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?, John Dickson, 06/06/2002
- Re: Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?, jwest, 06/06/2002
- Re: Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?, Eric Zuesse, 06/06/2002
- Re: Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?, David C. Hindley, 06/06/2002
- Re:Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?, cfjacks, 06/06/2002
- Re:Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?, Jeffrey B. Gibson, 06/06/2002
- Re: Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?, cfjacks, 06/06/2002
- Re: Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?, Eric Zuesse, 06/06/2002
- Re:Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?, nm_mcgovern, 06/06/2002
- Re:Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?, cfjacks, 06/06/2002
- Re:Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?, David C. Hindley, 06/06/2002
- RE: Why were Gentiles attracted to Christianity?, David C. Hindley, 06/07/2002
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