17 Sep 2023 11:55 pm
AuthenticityThe authenticity of 1 Thessalonians 2:13–16 has been disputed by some.[11] The following arguments are made against its authenticity based on its content:jerrab » 17 Sep 2023, 7:26 pm » wrote: ↑ paul is the one who stirred anger against the jews, not Jesus.
because of this passage, jews suffered thru out the centuries.------------------------------------------------------------------
1c thess
. 14 For you, brothers, nbecame imitators of othe churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own
countrymen as they did from the Jews,6 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and sthe prophets, and drove us out, and displease God and toppose all mankind 16 uby hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved—so as always vto fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them at last!7
- It is perceived to be theologically incompatible with Paul's other epistles: elsewhere Paul attributed Jesus's death to the "rulers of this age"[12] rather than to the Jews, and elsewhere Paul writes that the Jews have not been abandoned by God, for "all Israel will be saved".[13] According to 1 Thes 1:10, the wrath of God is still to come; it is not something that has already shown itself.[14]
- There were no extensive historical persecutions of Christians by Jews in Palestine prior to the first Jewish war.[15]
- The use of the concept of imitation in 1 Thes. 2.14 is singular.
- The aorist eftasen ("has overtaken") refers to the destruction of Jerusalem.[16]
- The syntax of these verses deviates from that of the surrounding context.[17]
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Even if Paul wrote it, Paul is no more an authority about Christ (whom Paul never met) than I am, and I am no saint.