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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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mystery cults
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diagnosis
Paul copies the Roman paterfamilias model into church hierarchy, replacing patriarch, clients, and slaves with bishop, clergy, and followers.
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Christian salvation turns slave labor from survival work into work for eternal paradise, making obedience more productive.
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diagnosis
Jiang says Jesus speaks to slaves while Paul speaks to patriarchs, explaining the rapid elite adoption of Christianity.
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"Now what the patriarch will do is he will identify very promising slaves. Slaves with talent. He will turn them into clients. So clients..."
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"...slaves practice. The slaves practice Christianity. But the patriarchs practice the mystery cults, okay? Why? Because this is the way that the patriarchs work..."
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"For everyone to obey the word of Jesus, which is really the word of Paul. And the third thing is, and this is really..."
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"...it encompasses all previous religions, including Egyptian Hermitism, including the Greek mystery cults of Pythagoras, including the Kabbalah. So it has scouted the entire..."
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"...before, this is actually a very common thing among the Greek mystery cults where they come together and they believe that when they eat..."
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"...the Gnostics which we discussed before and also you had these mystery cults. Mystery cults were the most popular form of religious worship which..."
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The conspiracy story is false as history and true as prediction.
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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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Christianity wins twice in this lecture: first as a Roman-compatible institution, then as a strange formula that trains people to treat symbols as reality.
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