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7/18/2025, 8:21:51 PM
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Jesus says a number of things in the same vein, though not quite as easy to take the wrong way, like “Those who are well have no need of a physician but those who are sick; I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.” from Mark 2 or the picrel passages from Luke 18 about admitted sinners being justified, not those who think they are righteous, and how the kingdom of God is for little children and those like little children.
Imo Paul and Jesus are often surprisingly well aligned, though I'm very partial to the idea, not wholly without evidence, that much of what is dislikeable in Paul is interpolations. And if someone is comfortable rejecting Paul entirely while still wanting to think of themselves as a follower of Jesus, I think they should be similarly comfortable with the less total idea that Paul's writings have been distorted. Though I guess that comes with the danger of doubting whether anything in the new testament is trustworthy.
Jesus says a number of things in the same vein, though not quite as easy to take the wrong way, like “Those who are well have no need of a physician but those who are sick; I have not come to call the righteous but sinners.” from Mark 2 or the picrel passages from Luke 18 about admitted sinners being justified, not those who think they are righteous, and how the kingdom of God is for little children and those like little children.
Imo Paul and Jesus are often surprisingly well aligned, though I'm very partial to the idea, not wholly without evidence, that much of what is dislikeable in Paul is interpolations. And if someone is comfortable rejecting Paul entirely while still wanting to think of themselves as a follower of Jesus, I think they should be similarly comfortable with the less total idea that Paul's writings have been distorted. Though I guess that comes with the danger of doubting whether anything in the new testament is trustworthy.
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