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Roman backing
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Pauline Christianity wins over more democratic Jesus movements because it has Roman backing and a superior organization model.
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Jiang frames Paul's biography through three mysteries: why he joined poor Jewish peasants, why he reversed from persecutor to follower, and who funded his mission.
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The lecture argues the Gospel account blaming Jews for Jesus' death conflicts with Jiang's view that Romans killed Jesus because he threatened their social order.
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"How cohesive is our church? That's all Paul cares about. Paul is a business person. Jesus is a prophet, but Paul is a business..."
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"Okay? The scholars don't really have an answer for this. The second question is, we know that Paul was a fanatical Pharisee, okay? He..."
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"Pilate. Pontius Pilate is the Roman governor who orders Jesus' execution, okay? Yeah, Pontius Pilate."
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"...from 1953 to 1979, the Americans were the ones who were backing this police state. So there are many who are angry about this...."
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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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