• mkwt@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Scholarly consensus holds that the “wives, submit to your husbands” passage was written many years after the author who is identifiable as “Paul” was writing his letters. That author fraudulently claimed to be Paul to make his writings more authoritative.

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          And the prevalence of dream magic in the region’s religious traditions, including in Judaism.

          Now if Jesus had spoken to Paul on the telephone or had performed a haka to display his mana to prove to Paul that it was really him, then we’d have something interesting

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            Not nearly enough magical power dancing in the original Christian religion. Say what you will about modern Evangelicalism, but they filled that gap.

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              Yeah but I really think they should allow regular dancing alongside it.

              Personally I think the Quakers found the right balance.

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          Did he claim anything? No-one who wrote the Bible ever met him, or were even alive at the time. All we have is nocturnal seances.