cupotea
Puritan Board Junior
I learned in a class that Paul was an apocalypticist. Do you guys think he was? That is, do you think that Paul thought that the end of the world would come within his lifetime, or at least pretty soon?
More importantly (this is what I'm more concerned about), does it matter? I mean, say you guys feel that Paul was an apocalypticist. Say he thought the apocalypse would come by 100A.D. Then he was wrong.
On the one hand, he was wrong about that, but who cares? Nobody knew when the apocalypse would come, so how should he?
On the other hand, if he was wrong, how much of his work should we trust? Well of course we must believe everything in the NT, but if he implied in the NT that he thought the apocalypse was imminent, and he was wrong, so what else was he wrong about?
My main question isn't really whether he was an apocalypticist, but rather, whether it matters, that is, can an apostle ever be wrong?
More importantly (this is what I'm more concerned about), does it matter? I mean, say you guys feel that Paul was an apocalypticist. Say he thought the apocalypse would come by 100A.D. Then he was wrong.
On the one hand, he was wrong about that, but who cares? Nobody knew when the apocalypse would come, so how should he?
On the other hand, if he was wrong, how much of his work should we trust? Well of course we must believe everything in the NT, but if he implied in the NT that he thought the apocalypse was imminent, and he was wrong, so what else was he wrong about?
My main question isn't really whether he was an apocalypticist, but rather, whether it matters, that is, can an apostle ever be wrong?