Posted: Feb 16, 2016 12:32 am
Kapyong wrote:Life of Adam, and the Third Heaven
Well, a mention of the functioning temple seems pretty solid.
If the story were a history I'd agree, but the story is far from an historical narrative.
Here are some books about Adam:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testament_of_Adam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_ ... with_Satan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_of_Adam
A functioning temple can also appear in a fiction story.
Are you assuming the "Life of Adam" is NOT fictional?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_of_Adam_and_Eve
- Interesting parallels can be found with some New Testament passages, such as the mention of the Tree of Life in Revelation 22:2. The more striking resemblances are with ideas in the Second Epistle to the Corinthians: Eve as the source of sin (2 Corinthians 11:3), Satan disguising himself as an angel of light (2 Corinthians 11:14), the location of the paradise in the third heaven (2 Corinthians 12:2). No direct relationship can be determined between the New Testament and the Life of Adam and Eve, but the similarities suggest that Paul the Apostle and the author of 2 Enoch were near contemporaries of the original author of this work and moved in the same circle of ideas
So your theory seems to use these similarities - or more striking similarities - in order to make the claim that Paul used this work and drew material from it. Which is possible, but is it likely.
The opposite case may also be true - namely the author of the Life of Adam and Eve drew material from Paul, at some later date. What are your thoughts about the opposite possibility?