Gwallard
Puritan Board Freshman
Hello, brothers!
I encountered an interesting person today who pitted Paul and Jesus against one another. I can't say his arguments were anything very convincing, and he didn't seem to know as much as I thought he did (he didn't know the three uses of the law, what dispensationalism meant, or what covenantal theology or the WCF was), but they were at least interesting.
One of those arguments was that Paul was a syncretist, and he used Acts 17:23 as his proof, because Paul pointed to the Athenian's 13th god of the pantheon, "the unknown god." He called the normal interpretation of the passage - of pagans covering their backs about gods they did not know about - wrong, and said that "the unknown God" was a type of oneness spirit to the Athenians, which they had a temple dedicated to.
I had never heard that argument. Anyone dealt with this type of argumentation before?
I encountered an interesting person today who pitted Paul and Jesus against one another. I can't say his arguments were anything very convincing, and he didn't seem to know as much as I thought he did (he didn't know the three uses of the law, what dispensationalism meant, or what covenantal theology or the WCF was), but they were at least interesting.
One of those arguments was that Paul was a syncretist, and he used Acts 17:23 as his proof, because Paul pointed to the Athenian's 13th god of the pantheon, "the unknown god." He called the normal interpretation of the passage - of pagans covering their backs about gods they did not know about - wrong, and said that "the unknown God" was a type of oneness spirit to the Athenians, which they had a temple dedicated to.
I had never heard that argument. Anyone dealt with this type of argumentation before?