What do you think about Paul's conversion from Saul, Christian hater and torturer?

Question

This was such a drastic conversion. You could feel God's own hand ordering Jesus and the Holy Spirit to come upon this man with a fury which so throughly established an undying love for Jesus and all he brought and offered for the taking by any one who only had to believe. Paul was such a stark conversion That if it hadn't been for his contributions to the new Testament, it would clearly leave a gap in the Bible. He was so very intense about his conversion. I want to know how you interpret his his conversion. Please, I want to know how you feel about this man. Thanks

Answer 1

I adore the apostle Paul. Paul is one of the most endearing persons spoken of in Scripture. He was incredibly real to me - with all his foibles he truly loved God. He clearly loved God with all his heart and wanted desperately to please God. He also is a walking example of how one can have a true zeal for God but not according to accurate knowledge. (Compare Romans 10:1-2). Thus he had to make some serious changes in his way of thinking. He also had to come to an accurate knowledge of the truth.

He also is a walking example of how sincerity alone is not enough to worship God acceptably. Paul was incredibly sincere as a Pharisee, but God was not accepting his form of worship.

Hannah J Paul

Answer 2

I don't feel anything, but I've read that the letters of Paul were written years after Jesus supposedly died and don't actually refer to the Jesus of the gospels but are an entirely different story on the same sort of subject that was popular at the time, and only much much later were the two books stuck together with the rest of the new testament books. So, it's just a story, and pretty much refers to its own time for a lot of the issues, which have been eclipsed by modern ideas over the centuries since. So I wouldn't read too much into it, especially considering that mysticism is bunk and a great evil.

Answer 3

Paul worshipped Zeus, the Sun God, and he had a vision of Zeus that is recorded 3 times in the Acts of the Apostles, and all three versions differ to produce witnesses who niether saw nor heard and who were all fallen to the ground and who also stood.

Paul's bright light above at midday was the Sun and Zeus. Who knows what he had been drinking that day?

Paul never converted. Christianity is still worship of the Sun God Zeus with the son of Zeus in Jesus or Jezeus, who is actually Zeus himself come down as his own son. Zeus is the God of Gods and the Father of Gods and men.

Check Acts of the Apostles for Zeus (if your Bible shows you Jupiter, thats the Latin name for Zeus) in Acts 14:12&13, and check Paul's versions of his Zeus encounter in Acts 9:3-9, 22:6-13, 26:13-19, and note the differences, if you wish.

Answer 4

I believe that it shows the mighty transforming power of the love of Jesus Christ. Each Christian that has been saved by grace has had that same conversion.
We are all equal in sin and equal in God's grace as brethren of the church. While we may not crucify and vilify God's people the same way that Paul did, guilty is guilty.

I believe that God has a purpose for each one of us, maybe as great as the works of Paul, or maybe just the jawbone of an *** waiting in the sunshine to be used, but a purpose just the same.

I believe that the Holy Spirit worked through Paul with annointing, and that he is the Holy Spirit that raised Christ from the dead, and the same that works in me and you.

Be blessed in Christ~vicki

Answer 5

I FEEL that Paul was a good man. It's best to replace the word feel with THINK in a question about the Bible. The Bible is an absolute standard of life which must be interpreted correctly. We don't need people's FEELINGS about the Bible, that just messes everything up. Think and use deductive logic with God's book. The Scripture will induce feelings of course, but your feelings are not what you should use to analyze it. And don't use your instincts or burning in the bosom to interpret it either, feelings can be misleading, "He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool, but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered" Proverbs 28:26
Use wisdom, use logic.

f.y.i. I prefer the NKJ version.

Answer 6

some say that without Paul, there does no longer be any church, that he wasn't relatively an apostle using fact Jesus replaced into long handed by using the time Paul got here alongside. A qualification of an apostle replaced into that they frolicked with Jesus. additionally, his letters are crammed with the abilities of what's a believer could try for, that the church has became into dogma.

Answer 7

He was phenomenal! I enjoy reading his writings over and over. It is unbelievable what a change occurred in him in such a short time. He was baptized and immediately went to the temple and Preached Jesus. This was certainly a big change in a short time period. In his blindness, he saw things that many people NEVER WILL! I thank GOD every day that he was a member of the Lord's Church. Have a great evening.
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Answer 8

Peace!
His conversion was definitely an act of God. If not for Paul, Christianity would probably be just a branch of Judaism. Paul also laid the foundation for Christian theology to develop..

Answer 9

Paul's conversion was definitely a miracle.

Answer 10

I feel that it shows even the vilest sinner can be a true servant of god if they give it all! And god can take an underdog with many blemishes and purify him!