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Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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double agent
Term or model used in this packet's account of Paul, Christianity, Roman power, or church doctrine.
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Jiang says Paul may be blatant about Roman connections because he is also working for Jewish leadership as a double or triple agent.
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Paul redefines circumcision from a physical covenant into a matter of heart and spirit.
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This rhetorical shift lets Gentiles enter the movement without adopting Jewish bodily law.
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"Okay, so he's saying, so he's convincing some Jewish leaders to convert, right? But not all convert, and so Paul gets pissed off and..."
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"...to remember with spies is they have no loyalties. They are double agents, they are triple agents, okay? They're always switching loyalties back and..."
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"Okay, so do you guys understand this is rhetoric, right? This is sophistry. We're changing the definition of the word. We're changing the idea..."
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"...will point out is this. It looks like, Paul is an agent of Rome, okay? It looks like he represents the empire, but why..."
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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