That is, of course, taken out of context by you. Paul is quoting from the Old Testament there, Psalm 19. He's not saying that the gospel has been preached to the whole world at that time. It's not what Paul is talking about at all.
Your "Old Testament" friend was brought to you courtesy of the Greek scholars nice enough to preserve it for you and Jesus, from out of a 1000yrs of their own culture that consisted of some of the deepest thought , reflection , meditation and development of language and ideas that even gave the word "Christ" its existence & its ornament. Even the Egyptian borrowed from the Greek, and still today that spirit of deep reverence and freedom rings in this world , that Paul is truely only in reality a footnote. Paul/Saul did not teach the Greek , he borrowed from and was created in the image of that culture he is thought to have converted . In every philosophical and theologica detail , the essence of your religion is mounted on the back end of the cultures that were as vital and productive and giving to the human spirit and imagination , as will ever be concieved .
Humility...perserverance ...self-sacrifice...intelligence...reason...divine wisdom....divine revelation...contemplation....divine prophesy on and on did not begin with the troubled tribe of Jesus or with Paul. All that body of most of everything you consider scripture was colored in and outlined in the greatest detail a 1000 yrs earlier in what we know as Greece . Paul had a revelation from above ? Yah , so did Solomon have some too--->all is vanity ...and that he also probably found leaving his lips because some Greek philosopher finally got to him !
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Pish posh....shear illusion and the height of Christian vanities and hysteria. But they burned all the books you know and slughtered uncounted numbers of pagans , just like the Moslems did ...and then slaughtered each other. But the most divine passages of both your old and new testaments are given life , the love , the poignacy , the literacy and vibrancy from that culture that was the originator of most all those concepts you hold dearest. Paul had nop divine revelation , any more than the great teachers that preceded him from centuries before. That is your illusion , but the world rediscovered what the truth was 1500yrs later , and a rennaissance of creativity ensued...only to be put down once again by the most violent "believers" .
You'll even find the idea of the "Christ" existing well and alive over to the east...quite distinctly prophesied in the Hindu Scriptures written down in the 4th century BC:
The prophesy of God taking on the human form , and entering the "earthly sphere" , to take on a physical body to rectify the wrongs of men and shed new light, and revitalize the world is an old prophesy , not exclusive to the old testament or Jesus at all. It is found clearly written in the oldest scriptures of the Hindu. (the oldest in the world)
When goodness grows weak,
When evil increases,
I make myself a body.
In every age I come back
To deliver the holy,
To destroy the sin of the sinner
To establish righteousness
(Bhagavad Gita)
written approx 450BCE out of India of Krishna....and possibly passed down verbally before from 3000yrs bc
The word "scripture" itself comes to you courtesy also from the Hindu as well as "God/Diety"...and also the idea of Christ/Messiah/Son of God. That the Christians and Moslems could not destroy or murder thanks to modern investigation and open translations and the revelation born from study of the truth of mankind's true history...all of it , and not the Judeo/Christian myths and centuries old forced hysteria. Paul's enlightenment was not that great friend .
Now try and get a clue...
Now carry on with all your wonderful illusions and who is more holy than the other .... even the Ehyptians were not all that evil as your "old testament" would state, the Hebrews are a tiny voiciferous desert wnadering warlike tribe , that made lots of noises on there own behalfs...the Greeks were tollerant enough to let them squawk.
(My God , how small we make God in our own images
ad nauseum infinitum) |
