Yes. He was trying to combine the Hebrew's one god belief, with the Greek's multi-god beliefs. It's well documented in history.
2007-05-13 14:36:26
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answered by Justsyd 7
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Better look at the Greek.
What Paul taught was the beauty and divinity of God and that this is expressed through His Son Jesus.
Do no confuse these.
There is deception and mistranslation by some that appears to support modalism and trinitarianism.
The confusion in this comes in translation and after the fact not what Paul taught.
Many Christians do not care for the Pauline presentation of God and Christ.
And do not surmise what was and was not in a library - there is no fact here - you are convincing yourself of a fanciful fiction.
And mixing up a lot of things. These ideas sound very influenced by Coptic teachings and are considered heretical by Christians.
Starton had some half baked ideas about the history of religion and should have stuck to the history of science.
2007-05-13 14:55:18
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answered by cordsoforion 5
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It's hard to say how much of Christianity was invented by Paul and how much was already stolen from earlier religions by the time he got ahold of it. It's almost certainly heavily borrowing from various pagan religions (though I suspect Mithraism is not one of the major sources--there were plenty of Dionysus-Osiris cults around). Edit: By the way, Moses did not write the Torah, and in fact no one wrote the Torah until after the Babylonian captivity. Before that, it was all oral tradition (several traditions, in fact), combined with other pagan legends (Babel and the Flood come to mind). The sources were combined into a book by a post-captivity priest.
2016-05-17 10:09:34
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answered by jacquelyn 4
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Do you and George Sarton not know that even Apostle Paul dealt with these gnostic Zoroastrian, Mithra, Nimrod, Sumerimus, Tammuz, Queen of heaven, Diana, Venus, Aphrodite, Satanic cults. George Sarton publishes garbage.
This is what Apostle Peter who walked with God said about
Apostle Paul. 2 Peter 3:15 & 16
"And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other Scriptures, unto their own destruction."
Geoge Sarton is one of those "unlearned and unstable that wrestle with the truth of God."
Mithra's original story was a concoction of what Noah's sons and wives brought forth through the flood from the beginning of time when God created the earth and man." Even the Bible says Nimrod and Semiramus of the Semirians whose son Tammuz started these false religions as a revolt against God. Noah knew God and life before the flood when men walked with God.
From Caesar to the Muslims are blamed for destroying the Library of Alexandria and you blame the Christians.
2007-05-13 14:57:29
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answered by Jeancommunicates 7
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Unfortunately, everybody took a whack at it!
"Who Destroyed Alexandria's Famous Library?
The Library of Alexandria was one of the best-known of the libraries of the ancient world. One of the interesting facts about the ancient world that seems to be missing from many history books is that there were many great collections of books and literature in ancient times and most were open to any scholar from anywhere in the world.
The library at Alexandria actually competed with that at Pergamum in amassing the most complete collection of books in the world. This went on in the 200's B. C., and it is interesting to note that there were already so many works in existence that obtaining a copy of each would have been an impossible undertaking even then. The destruction of this priceless treasure was a stroke of the most unimaginable bad luck. If Byzantine Egypt had been taken by one of the later Islamic conquerors, this irreplaceable collection would have been counted amongst the finest of the spoils of war to fall into a victor's hands.
Early in the year A. D. 642, Alexandria surrendered to Amrou, the Islamic general leading the armies of Omar, Caliph of Baghdad. Long one of the most important cities of the ancient world and capital of Byzantine Egypt, Alexandria surrendered only after a long siege and attempts to rescue the city by the Byzantines. On the orders of Omar, Caliph of Baghdad, the entire collection of books (except for the works of Aristotle) stored at the Library of Alexandria were removed and used as fuel to heat water for the city's public baths.
This is not the first time the library was damaged or destroyed. Originally built to house the massive collection of books accumulated by the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt, the library had been devastated by fire several times. During Julius Caesar's Alexandrian campaign in 47 B. C., Caesar set fire to ships in the port. The fire spread to the library, which was called the Museum at that time.
In A. D. 391, riots instigated by fanatical Christians damaged the collection heavily. During the years between disastrous events, the library collection had been gradually restored. In 641, the Caliph of Baghdad exhibited the same spirit of religious fanaticism in ordering Amrou to burn the books stored there. The loss of the library at Alexandria was a particularly grievous blow because the works of so many Roman scholars. literary geniuses, and historians were destroyed.
- Source: San Jose State University"
2007-05-13 14:41:14
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answered by U-98 6
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No, because Paul did not believe or teach a trinity concept about God and Jesus.
Notice:
(Ephesians 1:3) 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, . . .
(Romans 15:5-6) 5 Now may the God who supplies endurance and comfort grant YOU to have among yourselves the same mental attitude that Christ Jesus had, 6 that with one accord YOU may with one mouth glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) . . .and that there is no God but one. 5 For even though there are those who are called “gods,” whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords,” 6 there is actually to us one God the Father,. . .
(2 Corinthians 4:3-4) . . ., 4 among whom the god of this system of things has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, that the illumination of the glorious good news about the Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine through.
(1 Corinthians 11:2-3) . . .. 3 But I want YOU to know that the head of every man is the Christ; in turn the head of a woman is the man; in turn the head of the Christ is God.
These are just a few of the many scriptures Paul wrote explaining his belief, that Jesus is not God, but the image of God.
2007-05-14 12:38:48
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answered by TeeM 7
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Paul was Jewish, and a zealous one at that. It makes absolutely no sense to claim he was Zoroastrian. He was so devoted to the Jewish tradition that he intially persecuted the early Christians. He then had a mystical encounter with Christ and realized that Jesus was the Messiah, the fulfillment of the Judaic tradition. The concept of the Trinity comes directly from the words of Christ, in that he identified three persons who were divine, namely Himself (the Son), his Father, and the Holy Spirit who he mentions a number of times. The Jewish tradition held that God was one, therefore these three manifestations of God are also held to be one. There are some natural analogies for three being one, for example a colour (one colour, made up of three primary colours) or a single point in space having three dimensions in x, y, and z (Cartesian coordinates). In an analogous fashion the Trinity is one and three at the same time.
2007-05-13 14:47:16
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answered by morkie 4
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No, Paul promoted the idea from having experienced all three Persons of the Trinity, as they are presented in the Old Testament, through his background of Judaism, the teachings of the Holy Spirit, and through Jesus revealing Himself to Paul.
2007-05-13 14:39:04
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answered by Bobby Jim 7
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Since there are no surviving Mithraic texts what was Mr. Sarton's source? I would like to hear more of the matter you suggest,but I question the validity of any source claiming to be familiar with Mithraic texts.
2007-05-13 14:37:55
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answered by Galahad 7
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--PAUL NEVER propagated the lie of the pagan trinity!
--HE SAID THE FOLLOWING:
**(Ephesians 4:4-6) “4 One body there is, and one spirit, even as YOU were called in the one hope to which YOU were called; 5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all [persons], who is over all and through all and in all.”
--THERE IS NOTHING about any triune thing above!
--NOR IN THESE TEXTS:
**(1 Corinthians 8:4-6) “4 Now concerning the eating of foods offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one. 5 For even though there are those who are called “gods,” whether in heaven or on earth, just as there are many “gods” and many “lords,” 6 there is actually to us one God the Father, out of whom all things are, and we for him; and there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and we through him. . .”
**(1 Timothy 2:5-6) “5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, a man, Christ Jesus, 6 who gave himself a corresponding ransom for all—[this is] what is to be witnessed to at its own particular times.”
2007-05-13 14:45:33
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answered by THA 5
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I'd like for anyone to prove to me that Paul introduced the 'trinity' concept. I think that it is another one of those typical 'revisionist attempts at history. The idea is far fetched and a smear on Paul.
2007-05-13 14:46:50
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answered by Christian Sinner 7
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