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Quote by: suijurisfreeman  [8] Was the historical Jesus quite a different person from the Jesus of Paul's ideology, based on Paul's visions and trances? |
Actually, it should be Jesuses (Jesi?). We know today that the christ myth is based on not one man, but a group of rabble rousing rabbis from the late first century (bce) and early first century (ce) including, but not limited to Yeshua ben Pandira, Jesus ben Sirach, Jesus ben Ananias, Jesus ben Saphat, Jesus ben Gamala, and Jesus ben Thebuth... all of whom we know of through the writings of Josephus.
I doubt very highly there was a "Paul" or that the individual writing as Paul had any clue about Christian doctrine (largely because it hadn't been fabricated yet). If you read the writings of Paul on their own, you find Paul to be woefully ignorant of Jesus' life. He doesn't know about the three wise men. He doesn't mention walking on water. He doesn't talk about anything from Jesus' life accept his death. Remember: we're not looking at a set of events that may or may not have been accurately represented. We're looking at hoax that was composited together over many decades by many different hands.