2007-05-09 04:21:08 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Paul, the chameleon, (Roman, Jew, Christian), simply cannot be trusted. He had his own agenda. His writings made it into the Bible because of the Emperor Constantine at Nicea. God may have given his followers the Word but that doesn't mean the Romans and the Roman church passed it along intact.
Paul created a fiction of the real Jesus which suited his own needs.
2007-05-09 04:41:07 · answer #1 · answered by capekicks 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Paul was a contemporary of Jesus'. It is possible that Paul was at the crucifixion, but neither the Bible nor secular history has shed any light on this. Paul's meeting with Jesus was not a vision, but an actual supernatural experience. Only a person who has seen the resurrected Christ can be named an Apostle. There is no evidence that there have been any apostles after the first century. Paul also describes being taken up into heaven and having an audience with God. It is not certain whether this was a vision or an actual translation, but most scholars believe that it was an actual translation.
2007-05-09 11:32:01 · answer #2 · answered by Preacher 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the calendar used in NT days was different from ours, exact dates are difficult to determine. But it appears that Jesus' resurrection happened between 27 and 30 AD.
The stoning of the first Christian martyr, Stephen, happened about 10 years after, placing the date around 40 AD.
Paul was already an adult, and present at that stoning. So his life actually overlapped Jesus' by several years. However there is no evidence that he ever show, heard, or spoke to Jesus during his lifetime. That is probably because Paul was raised outside of Israel, in Tarsus.
Paul's conversion appears to have happened shortly after the stoning. Probably around 42 AD. It is known that Paul had completed his first mission trip, traveling with Barnabus, and then wrote back to those people in 48AD.
The book of Acts follows Paul through two more mission trips, and then on to Roman, end in 62AD with Paul in prison. All of Paul's letter (except 2 Timothy) appear to have been completed by 62 AD.
The majority of Paul's letters appear to have been written and in circulation before any of the four gospel were written. So the theology and doctrines contained in those letters pre-dates what is recorded in the gospels.
There are some references in 2 Timothy that lead scholars to conclude that around 64 AD Paul was released from prison and made a final trip through Europe preaching, going as far west as France (Gaul) and Spain. He was then rearrested by Nero and returned to prison.
According to 2 Timothy, Paul was in prison in Rome and awaiting execution when he wrote that letter. His beheading appears to have happened during a presecution in 67AD. It is believed that the apostle Peter died in that same persecution.
Hope that answers your question.
2007-05-09 11:39:32 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul astrally travelled and was with Christ in Spirit. That is what he meant when he said, "We are confident to be absent from the body, and present with the Lord."
Read 2 Corinthians 12 about being "out of the body" and the Third Heaven. Heaven, (the Astral), is really three dimensions above ours.
Genesis says the Firmament, (Heaven), was between the "waters", (spiritual forces), below the Firmament, and the waters ABOVE the Firmament.
2007-05-09 11:34:01 · answer #4 · answered by Crazy like a Fox 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paul was not the Rabbi Jesus was and told us never to use that term again for you only have ONE MASTER Mtt. 23
But he lived around 62,63 AD, after Christ 30yrs or so.
2007-05-09 11:34:51 · answer #5 · answered by manoman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋