I have read the Bible and finally agree that Paul meant to say exactly what he says in a plain reading of Romans 13. In 1928 Eli Marcus RAVAGE wrote a couple enlightening articles:
http://friends-n-family-research.inf...geArticles.zip
Ravage's concept and perspective interleaves well with
The Nazarene Gospel Restored by Robert Graves and Joshua Podro (Center of Bookshelf photo).
My conclusion is that Jesus was no more God than the rest of us, and I included the photo of
Daniel in the Lions' Den in the cropping attached as demonstration. We are all instilled with the image of God and that is what the lions saw that prevented them viewing Daniel for his nutritive value. Peter ran ahead of Shaul's (later Paul) team and alerted Jesus near Demascus and they made a threatening confrontation when Paul was isolated from his team of tax collectors (Herodian Guardsmen). Giving up the pursuit of bounty hunting, Paul began to focus on the pagan rumors of Resurrection and Virgin Birth from his homeland in Asia Minor and developed an idea for the perfect weapon against Roman occupation of Israel.
When that weapon is ignored by zealots like in the film snippet, the consequences are obvious as history itself. The zealous Christians attacked a near-defenseless caravan and stir Saladin into taking Jerusalem back.
I have read of zealots trying to attribute a misguided faith that Jesus is God (enough to have arisen from death) to common law - Christian Common Law. It gets nowhere. Even the Christian Jural Society Non-Statutory Abatements could be redacted to the functional sentence, "Therefore your Papers are hereby returned to you timely Refused for Cause with no Recourse to me."
Regards,
David Merrill.
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