Category: Sources of the Bible
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Paul’s Dependency on Talmudic Writings : Evidence of New Testament Borrowing
While Christians would prefer to allude to the notion that Paul, the self-acclaimed "apostle" of Jesus, was "inspired" when he wrote his epistles, the evidences we have researched states otherwise. We have seen how Paul had cited a verse from the "apocryphal books of Elijah" but claimed that he was citing from the book of…
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‘The Apocryphal Books of Elijah’ & Paul
In his First Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul says that "However, as it is written: 'No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.'" (1 Corinthians 2:9) It is claimed that Paul had paraphrase the above citation from Isaiah: "Since ancient times no…