Because I want to hear more about this:
TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 10:10 am(1) I believe Romans is his first work/Thesis, which isn't the mainstream view. It just so happens that on evidence, I'm right.
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TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 10:10 am(1) I believe Romans is his first work/Thesis, which isn't the mainstream view. It just so happens that on evidence, I'm right.
historia wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 10:18 amIt's easy to dream-up historical hypotheses. The question historians face is which hypothesis best explains the available data.TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Mon Jun 13, 2022 10:51 am
I did read and grasp the meaning of the epistles and I think my hypothesis fits the material, even if alternative hypotheses could be made.
Your hypothesis seems highly unlikely.
First, I think the internal evidence points strongly against it.
In his letter to the Romans, for example, Paul tells us he's been wanting to visit them for some time to conduct in Rome the kind of ministry he's undertaken elsewhere (Romans 1:13).
In fact, after "many years" he's now done with "these regions" (likely the Aegean if not the whole eastern Mediterranean) and now wants to visit Rome on his way to Spain (Romans 15:22-26).
That all makes sense if Paul visited and wrote his letters to the churches around the Aegean, including in Thessalonica, Corinth, Colossae and Galatia, before writing to the Romans -- especially since some of those letters include references to Paul having recently visited those Greek churches.
Your hypothesis, on the other hand, would have Paul writing Romans first before these other letters, apparently early in his missionary career, and so does not make good sense of that data.
Second, your hypothesis can't really be squared with the traditions of Paul's journeys recounted in Acts.
And, finally, it has zero scholarly support.
And the OP is in a context that assumes the Historicity of Paul as granted, even though the granted Historicity of Paul takes steps to following the granted Historicity of Jesus Down the toilet . . .We_Are_VENOM wrote: ↑Thu Jun 02, 2022 6:35 pm"I don't believe in God, the Bible, or Jesus..however, lets debate which one of Paul's alleged epistles were actually written by Paul, and in what order".Difflugia wrote: ↑Tue May 31, 2022 1:57 am Question for debate: Which Pauline epistles were actually written by Paul and in what order?
Because I want to hear more about this:TRANSPONDER wrote: ↑Mon May 30, 2022 10:10 am(1) I believe Romans is his first work/Thesis, which isn't the mainstream view. It just so happens that on evidence, I'm right.
Continues to blow my mind.