In the NT there are 13 Epistles under the name of Paul and a character with the same name [Paul] is also found in Acts of the Apostles.
It is said that NT Pauline Epistles were written before the NT Gospels because they contain very little about the Jesus character as mentioned in the Gospels but such an observation is of little chronological value since virtually all Epistles in and out the NT also mention almost nothing or very little about Jesus of Nazareth.
Examine the NT Epistles attributed to James, Peter, John and Jude.
There is virtually nothing or very little about the Jesus character in those Epistles.
For example, the character called Jesus or Christ is only mentioned twice in the James' Epistle with no mention of his apostles, birth, baptism, crucifixion and resurrection.
By contrast the Epistle to the Galatians mentions Jesus or Christ about 37 times and the writer claimed that he met apostles of Jesus Christ who was God’s son made of a woman, that he was crucified and raised from the dead. See Galatians 1.1, 1.19, 3.1, 3.27,4.4.
It is easily seen that the so-called Pauline Epistles contain far more claims about Jesus Christ and the apostles than in all non-Pauline Epistles combined.
The so-called Pauline writers appear to be using stories of Jesus that that were already known to them and falsely claiming to have gotten them from a resurrected being in the third heaven.
In the Epistles the supposed Pauline writer claimed he was a persecutor of the faith.
As a persecutor of believers the writer must know and identify what the Jesus cult believe and taught in the churches about their God Jesus.
In fact, in the Epistle to the Galatians, the writer stated that he persecuted those who were preaching the very same faith.
Galatians 1:23
It is virtually impossible that a dead man, buried for around three days, or a non-human entity, could have given the Pauline writers any information about actual past events.
The Pauline writers got no information from the supposed dead and resurrected Jesus.
They simply used information from believers and/or the Gospels or their sources.
It is said that NT Pauline Epistles were written before the NT Gospels because they contain very little about the Jesus character as mentioned in the Gospels but such an observation is of little chronological value since virtually all Epistles in and out the NT also mention almost nothing or very little about Jesus of Nazareth.
Examine the NT Epistles attributed to James, Peter, John and Jude.
There is virtually nothing or very little about the Jesus character in those Epistles.
For example, the character called Jesus or Christ is only mentioned twice in the James' Epistle with no mention of his apostles, birth, baptism, crucifixion and resurrection.
By contrast the Epistle to the Galatians mentions Jesus or Christ about 37 times and the writer claimed that he met apostles of Jesus Christ who was God’s son made of a woman, that he was crucified and raised from the dead. See Galatians 1.1, 1.19, 3.1, 3.27,4.4.
It is easily seen that the so-called Pauline Epistles contain far more claims about Jesus Christ and the apostles than in all non-Pauline Epistles combined.
The so-called Pauline writers appear to be using stories of Jesus that that were already known to them and falsely claiming to have gotten them from a resurrected being in the third heaven.
In the Epistles the supposed Pauline writer claimed he was a persecutor of the faith.
As a persecutor of believers the writer must know and identify what the Jesus cult believe and taught in the churches about their God Jesus.
In fact, in the Epistle to the Galatians, the writer stated that he persecuted those who were preaching the very same faith.
Galatians 1:23
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But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed. |
The Pauline writers got no information from the supposed dead and resurrected Jesus.
They simply used information from believers and/or the Gospels or their sources.
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