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11 I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. 12 I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it; rather, I received it by revelation from Jesus Christ.
So first off, Paul’s preaching is not from humans or history or facts, or recent reports of a crucified being brought back to life. It is straight up revealed knowledge.
Also notice that according to Paul “ For God, who was at work in Peter as an apostle to the circumcised, was also at work in me as an apostle to the Gentiles. Notice it was not Jesus he mentions here, but God.
You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. – He was portrayed as crucified. Not actually crucified, not recently crucified, not crucified by Pontius Pilate. He was simply described as a being crucified.
So what did Paul preach that you had to believe? “but we preach Christ crucified” – that’s it, full stop. That is the revelation, the mystery, the hidden wisdom (notice he doesn’t call it an actual recent historical event)
My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, 5 so that your faith might not rest on human wisdom, but on God’s power.
Again, why and how would actual historical events as portrayed in the gospels be matters of faith and of belief to Paul? He was just a few years removed from the actual crucifixion in the gospels.
The answer?! Paul’s Christ is not the Jesus in the gospels. Its a spiritual being Paul received information about through revelation. A wisdom!
He lays it our right here:
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. -So he is making a clear distinction about who and when he is talking about. He is about to talk about rulers of the age before time began and what they did.
No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. 8 None of the rulers of this age(the age before time began) understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory ( what? Christ had to be crucified or there would be no salvation).
So there you have it. A non historical event dreamt up by Paul. And according to Paul, his visions were just like the other Apostles visions, just like Peter’s visions. Paul makes no distinction between Jesus chosen disciples(Because Jesus did not exist, Christ was a spirit figure people were having visions about) and those God chose to reveal his son.
Can you find solid evidence in Paul’s writing (Not Acts), that Paul knows about Jesus of the gospels and all his words?
Can a recently crucified Jesus who preached to tens of thousands of people be a “hidden mystery”?
Can Paul say Christ crucified be a “hidden wisdom” when he was crucified and risen and signs were felt all over the world?
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