Paul had a serious head injury and Augustine had an inferiority complex which haunted him a good part of his life. What kind of basis is this for a major religion?
2006-08-23 12:20:53 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
***The basic concepts of Christianity came from Paul and Augustine? ****
Yes,
Christians follow Paul and Augustine in the name of Jesus.When i read the writings of Paul it at times appears that Paul knew very little about Jesus.
Act 13
26"Brothers, children of Abraham, and you God-fearing Gentiles, it is to us that this message of salvation has been sent. 27The people of Jerusalem and their rulers did not recognize Jesus, yet in condemning him they fulfilled the words of the prophets that are read every Sabbath. 28Though they found no proper ground for a death sentence, they asked Pilate to have him executed. 29When they had carried out all that was written about him, they took
him down from the tree and laid him in a tomb.
Paul says Jesus was hung in a tree, is that right. Go figure.
2006-08-23 12:36:38 · answer #1 · answered by zurioluchi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul's head injury - a baseless statement. Nothing says that this was so, it is wild speculation.
Augustin's inferiority complex - only a person ignorant of the most basic psychoanalytic theory would think they can analyze someone from centuries ago.
What kind of basis for an opinion is the weird stupidity you are asking about? That is a far more important question.
ADDENDUM:
Biblethumper,
How did you come to these 'interesting' conclusions? Is it based on a study of primary texts?
2006-08-23 19:24:37 · answer #2 · answered by wehwalt 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Paul and Augustine don't even compare. If Paul had said anything contrary to what Jesus taught or the other apostles or claimed his words were more reliable than the other Apostles, his letters would have been kept out of the Bible like the other "lost books"
2006-08-23 19:25:01 · answer #3 · answered by impossble_dream 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Goodness! A few minutes ago you didn't even know that Augustine was the theologian who developed the concept of Original Sin and now you are psychoanalyzing him AND at the same time denying Christian status to anyone from the East.
Amazing.
2006-08-23 19:27:16 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mother Teresa had an ugly nose did that make her mean?
Besides all of the deposit of faith was entrusted by JESUS to the apostles. Paul and Augustine just explained it.
2006-08-23 19:23:48 · answer #5 · answered by zorro 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The basic concepts of Christianity come from Jesus Christ himself.
2006-08-23 19:23:57 · answer #6 · answered by reallyconfuzzled1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
""The basic concepts of Christianity came from Paul and Augustine?""
NO - not at all.
The basic concept came from The GOD/JESUS.
2006-08-23 19:23:06 · answer #7 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes Paul perverted the Xians religion with all kinds of pagan ritual and symbolism. He was an agent provacateur.
2006-08-23 19:25:24 · answer #8 · answered by theagitator@sbcglobal.net 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The basic concepts come from JESUS!
Please read the gospels! Sheeesh..
2006-08-23 19:25:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
constantine was a fraud,augustine was decieved.
As for Paul(1 Corinthians 11:1) Become imitators of me, even as I am of Christ.
He was a true christian.
According to Jewish historian Josephus (first century C.E.), the Pharisees endeavored to harmonize the idea of fate with their belief in God and with the free moral agency granted to man. (The Jewish War, II, 162, 163 [viii, 14]; Jewish Antiquities, XVIII, 13, 14 [i, 3]) The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge says: “Previous to Augustine [of the fourth and fifth centuries C.E.] there was no serious development in Christianity of a theory of predestination.” Before Augustine, earlier so-called “Church Fathers” such as Justin, Origen, and Irenaeus “know nothing of unconditional predestination; they teach free will.” (Hastings’ Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, 1919, Vol. X, p. 231) In their refutation of Gnosticism, they are described as regularly expressing their belief in the free moral agency of man as “the distinguishing characteristic of human personality, the basis of moral responsibility, a divine gift whereby man might choose that which was well-pleasing to God,” and as speaking of “the autonomy of man and the counsel of God who constraineth not.”—The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, edited by S. Jackson, 1957, Vol. IX, pp. 192, 193.
Differing Catholic views. The trend toward including these additional writings as canonical was primarily initiated by Augustine (354-430Â C.E.), although even he in later works acknowledged that there was a definite distinction between the books of the Hebrew canon and such “outside books.” However, the Catholic Church, following Augustine’s lead, included such additional writings in the canon of sacred books determined by the Council of Carthage in 397Â C.E. It was, however, not until as late as 1546Â C.E., at the Council of Trent, that the Roman Catholic Church definitely confirmed its acceptance of these additions into its catalog of Bible books, and this action was deemed necessary because, even within the church, opinion was still divided over these writings. John Wycliffe, the Roman Catholic priest and scholar who, with the subsequent help of Nicholas of Hereford, in the 14th century made the first translation of the Bible into English, did not include the Apocrypha in his work, and the preface to this translation declared such writings to be “without authority of belief.” Dominican Cardinal Cajetan, foremost Catholic theologian of his time (1469-1534Â C.E.) and called by Clement VII the “lamp of the Church,” also differentiated between the books of the true Hebrew canon and the Apocryphal works, appealing to the writings of Jerome as an authority.
2006-08-23 19:23:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋