If you could speak to Paul (from the Bible), what questions would you want to ask him? Please only serious answers.
2007-02-20 12:05:32 · 10 answers · asked by ybnrml341 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I would ask him where the h*ll he comes off telling women to be silent and defer to their husbands. Oh yeah, and what gives him the authority to usurp the Rock upon which Jesus built his church? Since he never met Jesus while he was alive, what gives him the right to preach his foul misogynistic crap in Jesus's name? Oh and the big one.... Why didn't you come out of the closet?!?!
2007-02-20 12:11:27 · answer #1 · answered by E D 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would Punch him in the mouth and demand to know why he distorted the original message of Jesus of Nazareth and his followers. I've spent more than half of my life as a Biblical Scholar, and boy is the Christianity of Paul different from the Christianity that should have come out of the message of Jesus. I'm not saying this is a bad thing. I'm not a Christian anyway. But it would be really interesting to see where the world would be today if Christians stuck to it. I don't think Paul did any of this with malice, but a fact is a fact. He did they best he could, right. But he didn't stick to it. He turned Christianity into a Greek Mystery Cult.
2007-02-20 20:21:44 · answer #2 · answered by Not Your Muse 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I guess, the feminist in me has to ask this question.
Why did he think that a woman had no business being in ministry. As a preacher's daughter, I know about churches that don't want women to be pastors. But I also know that many women are called by God to minister and that may include being a pastor. So, if God truly calls a woman, it would not be right to restrain a woman from doing so.
2007-02-20 20:11:46 · answer #3 · answered by Searcher 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of the things Paul went thru in his life, I have to. I would ask him what was the thorn in his flesh and what did the 3rd Heaven he saw looked like. May God Bless U.
2007-02-20 20:20:05 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if he ever meet or correspondent with the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger
(His brother Junius Annaeus Gallio proconsul of Achaea dismissed the charge brought by the Jews against Paul (Acts xviii) )
2007-02-20 20:14:47 · answer #5 · answered by Lasse 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would ask him how one is supposed to have intelligent discussions with people who just rant about Paul's alleged misogyny, about his alleged changes to Jesus' message, who have clearly never studied either his letters or Jesus' teachings in anything more than the most superficial and cursory manner.
If ignorance is bliss, some of these posters must be very happy indeed.
2007-02-20 20:52:46 · answer #6 · answered by koresh419 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would ask him if he actually knew Jesus and see if he really knows God enough to be writing books that would be later put in the Bible.
I would also ask him about homosexuality and if it's ok or what.
2007-02-20 20:17:30 · answer #7 · answered by YouCannotKnowUnlessUAsk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd want to know if he thought he was writing scripture when he wrote his letters - would he be appaled to see what we've done with them.
2007-02-20 20:16:10 · answer #8 · answered by awayforabit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Aren't you ashamed of the persecution and ruthless treatment of humanity that you unleashed?
2007-02-20 20:12:11 · answer #9 · answered by Skeff 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Was he ever tempted to give up?
2007-02-20 20:17:27 · answer #10 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋