It’s been a bit of a busy couple weeks but I finished reading the 7 authentic Pauline epistles (1 Thess, Galatians, 1 and 2 Cor, Romans, Philippians and Philemon). These are the 7 epistles that most scholars think are written by Paul and as such represent our earliest and only real first hand account of the early Christian movement. They were likely written between 45 and 62 CE. To summarize Paul’s theology is very complicated, Paul is notoriously hard to understand…