Continued research for my next historical novel: Peter and Paul
Paul never met Yeshûa. He taught
what he thought Yeshûa may have
taught. Rather like the priests, padres and preachers of today, not to mention
TV evangelists.
Researching the Nag Hammadi Library (see: Key
to Immortality),
it seems to me that Yeshûa imparted secret knowledge to his immediate entourage
only. Perhaps only the apostles. Thus Paul’s knowledge was secondhand. Paul may
have had his visions and inspired revelations, but not direct knowledge or
gnosis.
There is, it seems, no substitute
for the real thing. I wonder how I can convey this fact to my readers without
diminishing his, i.e. Paul’s, contribution to the spreading of the ‘faith’. No
matter how wrong he may have been.
Just tell it like it is. What else can you do? let the reader decide whether Paul's letters/sermons conveyed a message from spirit or are his own ideas. Paul did not seem to have the same attitude towards women being equal with men that Yeshua conveyed. And to this day, in Jewish synagogues, women are still separated from the men.
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