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$\"Paul$ <\/p>\n

The idea for this joke came about in my Sunday school class yesterday.\u00a0We have been studying 1 Corinthians, and found ourselves talking about what made Paul\u2019s letters persuasive before they were scripture.<\/p>\n

For those who may not get the joke, our oldest manuscripts of the New Testament are written in all upper-case\u00a0letters, not because of an escalating internet flame war that the Christians were involved in, but simply because that was how manuscripts were written then.<\/p>\n

There are all sorts of aspects of Paul\u2019s communication that we are prone to misunderstand. Sometimes because we don\u2019t know the cultural context, or the\u00a0ways that letters were produced in that time. Sometimes because they have become part of a collection known as the Bible, which interferes with readers today treating them as what they originally were \u2013 letters from one human being to others<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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