Corpus-Paul

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(Sigh) 
Is this neccessary?
I have no wish to engage in personalities or ad hominems.  To say I can't 
think of any objections is unwarranted.  I simply threw out the book to hear 
what others have to say.  It is true I said I do not accept the thesis.  My 
reasons are hardly theological though.  

I think Doherty must engage in "special pleading" when it comes to certain 
Pauline passages that would sink his thesis.  Galations 4:4 is a case in 
point.  "Born of a woman, born under the law"...the best reading of that is 
that Jesus was a Jewish human being in my opinion.  Doherty goes onto say 
that Jesus was mythical, but came down for a short period of time to earth in 
order to justify that passage.  I think that is a hard sell.

The easier explanation is that there was somebody, that was killed and Paul 
took the religion in a whole new direction...

By the way, I am at best an agnostic, so despite the notion that you are 
privy to my theological ideas, I really have no overarching desire to defend 
orthodox Christianity, and I certainly do not believe Jesus was divine in any 
sense of the word.

That is all, I will talk about things, but I would prefer we could do it 
without questioning people's motives.

Thank you,
Mike Burkhimer