tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post4955441501080014760..comments2023-11-02T01:20:32.436-07:00Comments on The Forbidden Gospels: Who was Paul really?April DeConickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06616757055618151612noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-51455215049821600102013-05-01T07:25:00.058-07:002013-05-01T07:25:00.058-07:00I read Paul to be saying this, yes.I read Paul to be saying this, yes.April DeConickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06616757055618151612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6536854065433425156.post-57800604793951286082013-04-30T17:48:44.914-07:002013-04-30T17:48:44.914-07:00Do you think Tabor is correct in the last part of:...Do you think Tabor is correct in the last part of:<br /><br />“The believer achieves a mystical union with Christ due to this Spirit infusion, a gradual process that is transformative involving also the sacred meal where Christ is taken within as food."?<br /><br />To me, 1 Cor 11:23-26 has the appearance of a later insertion, smoothed in at 11:27-28 or 26-28. Its source would have been one of the Gospels. Granted that there had been a last meal together, through the influence of Mithraism and possibly of the Essenes, the body & blood ritual could have developed by the time the first Gospel was written. Also, “the Lord’s supper” in 1 Cor 11:20 is more accurately translated as “a supper of the Lord.” <br />Jim Deardorffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04517653430586348063noreply@blogger.com