I still think that's just a clunky way to reconcile Paul's selling of radical Judaism to the Greco-Roman masses with the idea of a single god; same reason Christians still stress that Jesus is God's "ONLY" son - a hold-over from Paul turning him into a demi-god to compete with pretty much everyone else who was important in their society.
I still think that's just a clunky way to reconcile Paul's selling of radical Judaism to the Greco-Roman masses with the idea of a single god; same reason Christians still stress that Jesus is God's "ONLY" son - a hold-over from Paul turning him into a demi-god to compete with pretty much everyone else who was important in their society.