OK, I realize I am new here and will take a lot of crap from most. How can you make assumptions about Paul and his writings when you have not read them. To say that he was talking about a "Jesus that exists in another realm" ??? Jesus did exist in his time. After Jesus died Saul who we now know as Paul was executing the believers of Jesus "Christians". The writings of Paul make this very clear. They even go as far as Showing Paul eating with the Disciples. You can find this in Galatians 2:11-21. In these verses it should clear up two things for you.
1. Paul did live in the time of Jesus he was eating with the same ppl who walked with him. Showing that he was eating and talking to Peter and Barnabas, both Disciples of Jesus.
2. Paul knew Jesus as a real man not a "Other worldly Son of Man". Seeing that in verse 21 he states that if righteousness could be gained by law Christ "DIED" for nothing.
Why would he say that Christ had died if he did not live? Why would he be eating and in fact in this passage be correcting a Disciple if he did not live in the same time frame of Jesus?
So Theodoric in fact the Gospels do portray Jesus as a literal person and so do the writings of Paul, which do mention the happenings in the Gospels which did exist in his time.
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