Celsius confutes you beyond any doubt:
So Jesus was an Angel for both catholics and heretics in 2 century. The probability that Jesus was an Angel for Paul too can only increase.
Celsius confutes you beyond any doubt:
I don't know where you're getting this from. Galatians does not say, hint, or imply that Jesus was born of a woman. Instead there a couple of implications that it is Paul who is reborn into the New Covenant.But in Ro 13:3, these archontes can be identified as Roman authorities. I rather search in the Pauline epistles for the meaning of a word than in apocryphal literature. There is no evidence that Paul dug up in that kind of texts.
In Galatians, Jesus is also born of woman as a Jew, and a descendant of Abraham. And that's not implied.
As I said it is complicated.Giuseppe wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2018 2:38 am
I think that you should use a better meaning for "earth" in your same words: demons can't leave the sublunar realm (not only the mere earth).
They will be destroyed there. Ephesians 6:12 makes my same point:
Frankly, to interpret Paul I would base myself more on the words of who wanted to talk under his false name (like Ephesians or Colossians but not the Pastorals), more than on the DSS.
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms
Really! what do you make of Gal 4:4?I don't know where you're getting this from. Galatians does not say, hint, or imply that Jesus was born of a woman.
Yes, it sounds a bit phantasmagoric but consistent with a pool of molten lava in middle earth. You can't see the sky but there is no firm ground either. Still, Enoch makes it clear that the entrance to this abyss is located in a valley on earth.Giuseppe wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2018 7:35 am To John T.:
I Think that to interpret "I saw neither a heaven above nor a firmly founded earth, but a place chaotic and horrible" as a place on the earth (and not as the more low place of the lowest heavens between the earth and the moon) is not correct. Enoch placed the hell in the Lower Heavens, just as Plutarch.
A later interpolation. So I don't regard it.Bernard Muller wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2018 9:34 am to Joseph D. L.,Really! what do you make of Gal 4:4?I don't know where you're getting this from. Galatians does not say, hint, or imply that Jesus was born of a woman.
Cordially, Bernard