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Paul's »Human« Speech

Marinko Vidović orcid.org/0000-0003-0746-023X ; Katolički bogoslovni fakultet Sveučilišta u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska

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Arguing the Gospel and its salvational value and strength, Paul uses different arguments but rarely with only human thinking and experience. This article researches those places where Paul uses »human« argument. The article limits itself to three texts in his authentic epistles (Rom 3:5; Cor 9:8; Gal 3:15) because the syntagma »human« is related to the verb speech, therefore, it directly enters into Paul's framework of arguing. Nevertheless, seeing that this arguing is always found in the context of arguing »by the Scripture/Scriptures«, either as a supplement or as an explanation, it was necessary to at least briefly present Paul's arguing by the Scripture and his basic anthropology.
Analysing the texts where he uses »human« argument we notice a certain progress in Paul's thoughts, in his arguments in relation, in fact, to his arguments by the Scripture. In Rom 3:5, human experience and thought are in opposition to what the Revelation claims. If on the basis of the Revelation we can conclude that human evilness emphasises. God's righteousness, isn't it absolutely justified then to conclude with human thinking that God is unjust in bringing his wrath on human evilness. Paul excludes this type of thinking and is convinced that God takes account of human evilness in his salvational plan without alleviating man of his responsibility for evilness.
In 1 Cor 9:8 his »human« argument is in complete harmony with what the Scriptural Revelation proclaims. Ordinary human experience is confirmed in the Scripture because the Scripture sprouts out of human experience, out of the experience of reality in God's light. When God's word allows only that which is generally confirmed by experience, in our freedom we could refrain of it in order to witness another way of God's behaviour in Jesus Christ. In Gal 3:15 human experience only partially overlaps with God's behaviour. Correct relations with God, that is, faith can start from reason however, it cannot remain in it. Human experience is Paul's starting point to prove another, different experience that is gained only through faith based on the promise. Here, in light of God's behaviour, as recorded in the Scripture and realised in Jesus Christ, Paul modifies and expands the boundaries and horizons of human experience.
In his »human« arguing, Paul shows how human experience can be in opposition to God's Revelation, be in harmony with it or in it or through it, be expanded to unforeseeable horizons. The Revelation can validate all that is human, modifies it, confirms it and raises it to a level where something that is just human would never be able to reach on its own. God's Revelation in Christ, testifies Paul, leans on what is »humanly« accessible to man in that it purifies, ennobles and raises it to a level that is no longer only just human.

Ključne riječi

arguing; progress in arguing; »human«; use of the Scripture; anthropology; Revelation; human experience; human thinking; Law; promise

Hrčak ID:

30906

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/30906

Datum izdavanja:

13.11.2008.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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