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« on: January 06, 2022, 05:12:04 PM »

He wrote some important stuff and beautiful verses, but I do think he had a tendency to ramble in a way and used multiple paragraphs to say things that could've been a lot simpler. To use a weird analogy he was to theological letters to churches what David Fincher is to filmmaking.
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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2022, 05:44:28 PM »

What a ridiculous question. Do you not believe every word of the Bible is God's word as intended?

That is a fundamentalist viewpoint.
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2022, 07:43:04 PM »

Hemmingway hadn't been around yet, sadly.

Seriously though do you have any passages in mind? I don't think anyone will defend Paul as a particularly polished stylist, because he wasn't. He lacked the education in Greek rhetoric that was expected of authors at the time and was writing his letters extemporaneously. And scholars think some of the letters we have are multiple ones stitched together, which might explain things. But I don't know if it's a problem of Paul not being succinct enough necessarily: if anything he's sometimes too succinct on important issues. And certainly not prolix in comparison to classical rhetoricians like Demosthenes or Aelius Aristides.
I was thinking mostly of Galatians. Each chapter is basically him making a specific point, but a paragraph is often all that's needed. Looking up Galatians 3 was what reminded me of this.

Romans has some examples too, see 8.
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