Comments on: Reserve Reading – Greco-Roman Backgrounds of the NT

By: Maida

Maida — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 21:39:50 +0000

The core of your writing while sounding agreeable in the beginning, did not sit very well with me after some time. Somewhere throughout the paragraphs you managed to make me a believer but just for a while. I still have a problem with your leaps in logic and one might do well to help fill in all those gaps. In the event you can accomplish that, I could undoubtedly end up being fascinated.

By: Hannah Giumento

Hannah Giumento — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:09:24 +0000

On page 18 this quote stuck out huge to me, “So that the cross of Christ would not be made void.” I took the quote in a different way then it should be taken, but it got me thinking on how different religions view the cross and what it is a symbol of. Come view it as God is still ion the cross and others don’t. Even some are in disgust with it. That in its self is a hard thing to grasp when so much was shed on that cross. Its more than a tree…

By: Jake Stoller

Jake Stoller — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:50:25 +0000

p.#3 Christianity and the gods
How could the belief of the Maltese in Paul’s supposed deity “prepare the reader” for anything? Wouldn’t it be consistently wrong to perpetuate blasphemy?

By: Bethany Whitcraft

Bethany Whitcraft — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:33:32 +0000

I aslo was wondering about the fact that on page 3 of Christianity and the gods, why didn’t Paul correct the Maltese? I was also confused about what the profit would have been for furthering the Gospel since Paul did not deny it? More simply put, how’d it help?

By: Taylor Ruble

Taylor Ruble — Thu, 07 May 2009 18:40:08 +0000

i like how the new testament and the whole bible is not written in a void, but it is fermly located in the context of the greco roman world. and this fact can be sean not only in the things discused but also in the way they are descussed with the format of the letters and the NT itself.

By: Elizabeth Rhée

Elizabeth Rhée — Thu, 07 May 2009 17:06:25 +0000

This is kind of what I asked you about in class – could the reason that Paul didn’t deny it when the people called him a god because they weren’t worshipping him?

By: Becca

Becca — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:32:53 +0000

The third paragraph on “Christianity and the gods” confused me. Did people think the gods were helping or punishing Paul? Or does this even have to do with the gods preventing or helping Paul?

By: Laura Kompara

Laura Kompara — Wed, 06 May 2009 21:38:39 +0000

(p. 3 “Christianity and the gods”) Why did Paul not correct the Maltese people when they began to think “that he was a god” (Acts 28:6)?

By: Brock Reilley

Brock Reilley — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:53:08 +0000

In the Christianity and the gods, Do you think it was a struggle for Paul to stay true to God when all the other gods were a big belief by other people?

By: lisa

lisa — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:50:44 +0000

on page 3, it talks about Paul sending Onesimus “back to you.” was onesimus a former slave of Philemon? and paul refers to being Onesimus’ “father” b/c of his conversion to the faith. why wouldn’t he call him “brother” like he does his other fellow believers?