Paul, The Corinthians, and The Fallible Word

As an individual of faith I am always intrigued to read various viewpoints put forth regarding the Bible.  As a rational thinking individual, I read the writings, as collected within the Bible, with a somewhat jaundiced eye, realizing that The Creator, as I consider Him/Her (take your pick), creating myself in His image, and a just bit lower than the angels, does not require me to abandon my reasoning capabilities when reading what has been collected and promulgated to us in the Bible, by men.

With this in mind, I point to an essay at the blog Classically Liberal titled Some thoughts on the letters of Paul.  The author is a former seminary student, now atheist (The complete atheist is more respectable than the man who is indifferent.  He is on the last rung preceding perfect faith. - Albert Camus in The Possessed).  From the essay.

People kept many of Paul’s letters, copied them over and passed them around. Or, more likely, someone read them aloud since most Christians were illiterate. Paul was seen as the one who converted them to this new “one true” faith. So his advice was taken seriously.

But there is no indication that anyone, at the time, thought these letters were the “word of God.” That came much later…

Via Jason Kuznicki at the blog Positive Liberty in a post titled Like Water Through My Hands.  Interesting comment thread at Jason’s post also.

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