Chap wrote:They don't just mean "There's this guy who has posted a long video on Youtube expressing this idea". But go on - set out for us a summary of the arguments and evidence for his idea about Paul writing in code that you think are particularly persuasive.
Thank you for your opinion. I will file it in the appropriate place.
Franktalk wrote: There is a view that Paul knew the church would fall and thus wrote in code so his epistles would not be cut out of the canon. I will supply a link to a youtube video which describes this. I don't believe everything said in the video but it is interesting.
If this has any truth then Paul as well as Joseph Smith were / are trying to restore the gospel in the latter days.
Frankly, when someone says of a question of New Testament scholarship "There is a view that ..." they usually mean that someone with credentials in the subject has presented a reasonably argued and evidenced case that has drawn serious attention from others in the field, even if most or all of them disagree.
They don't just mean "There's this guy who has posted a long video on Youtube expressing this idea". But go on - set out for us a summary of the arguments and evidence for his idea about Paul writing in code that you think are particularly persuasive.
To which Franktalk responds:
Franktalk wrote:Thank you for your opinion. I will file it in the appropriate place.
Do you notice his telling response to the request at the end of my post?
Thought not ...
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.