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dejuror wrote:

neilgodfrey wrote:I thought you knew your Paul better than this. Paul makes no reference to any earlier material at all?

The Pauline writer did refer to earlier material. The Pauline writings refer to far more earlier material than all the other non-Pauline Epistles. The Pauline Corpus was a product of the Septuagint, the Later Gospels and Acts.

1. 1 Cor. 15

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received , how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4 And that he was buried , and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures

2. 1 Cor 11.

23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread: 24 And when he had given thanks , he brake it, and said , Take , eat : this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped , saying , This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye , as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

3. 1 Corinthians 14:18 KJV

I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all.

4. 2 Corinthians 11:33 KJV

And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

5. Galatians 4:4 KJV

But when the fulness of the time was come , God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law

6. Galatians 2:20 KJV

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live ; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

7. Galatians 2:7 KJV

But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me , as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter

8. Romans 1:3 KJV

Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh..

9. Philippians 2

5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: 7 But made himself of no reputation , and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men.

10. Romans 1:16 KJV

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth ; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

11. Galatians 2:1 KJV

Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

12. 1 Thessalonians 5:2 KJV

For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.