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Subject The apostle Paul didn't know Jesus walked the Earth

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Of course Paul knew Jesus walked the earth. He was sent to persecute the followers of Jesus:

(Acts 9:1-6) 1 Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

3 As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”

5 And he said, “Who are You, Lord?”

Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.”

6 So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?”

Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

That pretty much puts to rest your false premesis of Paul not recognizing Jesus as a human who walked the earth...you sir (the OP not digital attourney) are a Spiritual retard not knowing the scriptures yourself.
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I think the OP is correct. I was just reading a book the other day that mentioned that. You can't go by what Matthew Mark, Luke, John and Acts says because they were all forged. All testaments were written over 100 years after Jesus' alleged death.  Alot of pauls work was forged and suppressed too.

It is known that Paul was a Gnostic. In early Gnostic-Christian sects, they did not picture Jesus Christ ever taking a flesh form, but rather it was a spiritual form. "The Christ within us" if you will. Since it was known that Paul was a Gnostic-Christian, it is possible that he believed that because that is what Gnostic Christians believe. No flesh, all spiritual.
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Original Message In fact, Paul specifically states that all the information he acquired about Christ came from revelations (divine visions), not from any man or human source.

Paul's Christ was purely a spirit, not a man:

Galatians 1:11-12 (NIV)
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.

This implies that Paul knew nothing of Jesus except by his own divine revelation from the spirit Christ. Paul doesn't really make any mention of Jesus having come to Earth as a man. The death and resurrection of Christ was a purely spiritual happening, not an Earthly one.

Quite a drastic departure from the gospels!
Also keep in mind that Paul's writings pre-date ALL of the gospels.

It seems apparent to me that the later gospel writers added a humanistic approach to this new spiritual religion, and with each successive gospel, more details were added to the human story of Jesus. But Christianity was from the very begging a purely spiritual religion that had nothing to do with a human man. The gospels changed all that by adding a human story to what was originally an intermediary spirit being who resided in a spiritual world.

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