16 Jan '19 01:20>
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Everybody knows that Paul claimed to have met the resurrected and glorified Jesus Christ.
Everybody (mostly) knows that he went from a fierce persecutor taking the initiative to wipe out the new teaching, to its most laboring and prolific defender and writer.
Everybody knows that the turning point came when he was stopped and knocked to the ground by the appearance of Jesus Christ in blinding glory telling him that he would be a chosen vessel to spread the gospel.
YOU assume that "meeting Jesus" has to mean meeting Jesus before His resurrection and glorification.
YOU assume that that is the ONLY way a man of the first century could meet Jesus.
Between the four biographies and the epistles and Revelation is the book of Acts written by a traveling companion of Paul Luke who heard Paul, knew Paul, wrote the Gospel of Luke and did journalistic research on the eyewitness men and women who knew Jesus before His ascension to heaven.
Saul became Paul BECAUSE he met Jesus.
Paul, who never met or knew Jesus. Thirteen books? Well, well.
Everybody knows that Paul claimed to have met the resurrected and glorified Jesus Christ.
Everybody (mostly) knows that he went from a fierce persecutor taking the initiative to wipe out the new teaching, to its most laboring and prolific defender and writer.
Everybody knows that the turning point came when he was stopped and knocked to the ground by the appearance of Jesus Christ in blinding glory telling him that he would be a chosen vessel to spread the gospel.
YOU assume that "meeting Jesus" has to mean meeting Jesus before His resurrection and glorification.
YOU assume that that is the ONLY way a man of the first century could meet Jesus.
Between the four biographies and the epistles and Revelation is the book of Acts written by a traveling companion of Paul Luke who heard Paul, knew Paul, wrote the Gospel of Luke and did journalistic research on the eyewitness men and women who knew Jesus before His ascension to heaven.
Saul became Paul BECAUSE he met Jesus.