Not for the change of mind from “I completely don’t care about humans” to “I’ll make my only Son a human (to start with) and let other humans crucify him so that they could wash off the original sin”.
It’s not smoking-gun obvious to me that this second formulation is what the pre-Pauline Christians believed in. Jesus’s divinity certainly wasn’t settled even after Paul. Consider for example the Arian “heresy”.
Paul might cut it if you’re Thomas Jeffson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible “Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.”
Not for the change of mind from “I completely don’t care about humans” to “I’ll make my only Son a human (to start with) and let other humans crucify him so that they could wash off the original sin”.
It’s not smoking-gun obvious to me that this second formulation is what the pre-Pauline Christians believed in. Jesus’s divinity certainly wasn’t settled even after Paul. Consider for example the Arian “heresy”.