Since Christians have 100 opinions : Someone please tell us how many yrs after Jesus - PAUL lived ?

Question

WHAT YEAR DID HE CONVERT ?

Thanks for the info !

Answer 1

Your cynicism is well founded in that Biblical dates can often be very problematic. Paul’s birth is an estimate, although it is supposed that it was about 10 AD in Tarsus. We know that he was a student of Gamaliel, grandson of Hillel the elder. Interestingly enough, Gamaliel’s death is recorded as 63 AD.

Jesus Christ was clearly not born at what we celebrate at the beginning of our AD, but probably in either in 4 or 5 BC (or BCE if you prefer.) Jesus appears to have begun his ministry when he was about 30 (Luke 3:23) and according to Daniel, spent 3 1/2 years in his ministry. That would date his death in the spring of 31 AD (or CE if you prefer.)

Nevertheless, it seems certain that Paul's conversion came soon after Stephen's death, at which Paul (nee Saul) was present and encouraged. It would appear that Stephen's stoning occurred in 34 or 35 AD. The traditional date of Saul's conversion, after which he received his new name, Paul, was 34 AD. Regardless, Paul's conversion follows Stephen's death and it can be argued that Stephen's prayer is the source of Paul's salvation on the road to Damascus.

Paul's date of death is a matter of some speculation, but scholars can date his being in Rome in 62 AD. Peter seems to have come the following year and it is probable that Paul and Peter were crucified, Peter upside down, under the reign of Nero. The date of Paul's death, then, is probably in 65 or 66 AD.

As an additional note, Eusebius dates Paul’s and Peter’s common date of death at 69 AD which is generally accepted today as being incorrect.

Answer 2

You're not going to get an exact date, sorry. Fact is, no one KNOWS the exact date. It's not like anyone can pinpoint that Paul's birth date was October 14th, in the year 10 A.D., at 2:03 in the afternoon, and that his conversion was on March 4th, in the year 35 A.D. at 9:35 A.M.
It was too long ago, and if I'm not mistaken, they used a different calendar then. So, the date of conversion falls SOMEWHERE between 30 A.D and 40 A.D., with a margin of error of about three years, depending on which calendar is applied. Some say Jesus ascended as early as the year 27 A.D., some put it closer to 35 A.D. So Paul's conversion would depend upon that.

I'm sorry we can't be more specific. It's ancient history, and except for in the eyes of the church, Paul was a nobody. Most people don't even know exactly when Nero became emperor, at least, not down to the date. How would we know about Paul's life?

Answer 3

Paul and Jesus lived at the same time but their paths never crossed while Jesus was on this earth. The Gregorian calendar started around the time Jesus was born and Paul died around 67 AD. And since Jesus died at age 33, lets take off about 33 years for Paul. Paul lived about another 34 years after Jesus

Answer 4

Paul was born in the first decade of the first century. He converted around 36 C.E. The Bible does not tell us how or when the apostle Paul died, and history does not provide us with any information. The only thing we have to go on is Christian tradition, which has Paul being beheaded in Rome, around the mid 60s C. E, during the reign of Nero.

Answer 5

He's usually said to have been born around C.E. 10, died in 67. The "Road to Damascus" revelation usually said to have taken place around the year C.E. 36. This isn't really one of those theological questions that invites controversy...lol. Most scholars can agree that a man called "Saul/Paul" actually lived around that time, although the exact dates are obvioiusly up for conjecture. Nobody disputes that Paul never knew "Jesus" in life, because Paul himself admits as much.

Answer 6

Paul lived at the time of Jesus, born 10 AD and was martyred by Nero in 67 AD so he lived for about 47 years “after” the death of Christ.

Answer 7

St. Paul knew St. Peter, so Paul lived in the 1st century A.D. Both were contemporaries of Jesus Christ, but Paul never personally met Christ as did Peter.

He began by persecuting the Church and ended up becoming one of its greatest saints.

He converted probably sometime around A.D. 40 so pretty soon after the death of Christ in 33.

Answer 8

with out Paul, Christianity would probably on no account have become the stress interior the international that that is. it might have on no account become unified in doctrine. yet then, that doesn't extremely answer your question. i think that Paul, by using his persecution of Christians, grew to become conscious of a spreading - yet fragmented - cult. He observed an hazard to place his very own stamp on what he observed, understanding that he become far extra knowledgeable than maximum human beings of those believers. Paul invented Christian orthodoxy, and unfold it in the process the Roman territory along with his letters. From then on, Christianity extremely grew to become Paulianity.

Answer 9

Paul was one born out of due season, that means reborn a Christian not as a baby.. Paul was alive when Christ was walking the earth,he just was not a follower of Christ. Right after Christ was murdered,Stephen was killed and he was a mighty man of God,Saul(PAUL) Held their(the murders of Stephen) coats while they killed him, so they would not get them nasty with all the blood. So Saul (Paul) was alive even then..He became Paul after he was baptized for the remission of his sins and be came a Christian.And then he was a mighty man of God.....

Answer 10

I'd say around 37-41 A.D. Paul converted. Paul could have lived till 80 or 90 A.D. I think.