Who can tell me about Saul Of Tarsus?

Question

Who can tell me about Saul Of Tarsus? What is so significant about him? What did he do for a living? Why did he start doing one thing but ended up doing something else entirely? What was his legacy left behind?

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Answer 1

He was a Jewish leader in the synagogue, he persecuted the early Christians, he had Stephen stoned to death. He was well read and taught theTora. On the road to Damascus he had a conversion, Jesus asked Saul why are you persecuting me? Saul was temporally blind and sent to a apostle home for healing. His name was then changed to Paul.
He wrote many of the epistles. Great man of God who himself was persecuted and beheaded for his faith in Christ Jesus.
I'll pass on your grading system, no points needed.

Answer 2

1) Saul of Tarsus lived from probably about the birth of Christ to the late 0060's. We know the name of his instructor, and he received a very good education, and he was an excellent writer. In short, he was the PhD of his day. He knew Roman sports, foreign language puns, and so on.

2) Most of the authors of the Bible were rather plain men excluding Matthew and Luke who received a fair education, but nothing near Paul. Of all the writers of the New Testament though, Paul was the most educated in the Jewish scriptures, and was at first the most zealous defender of them against what he saw as Christian negligence of the scriptures. However his conversion serves three intellecutal advantages, and two ones of faith which I will include.

a) He becomes the most intelligent writer of the entire New Testament
b) The most familiar with the Old Testament
c) Building on the previous two points, he is the best man suited to dwell in matters of theology. The gospels are not really theological but historical, they account for things but do not fully explain the meaning of it. Paul, however, functions as a theologian and tells the importance of the sacrifice of Christ, what Grace and Faith are, and how salvation is attained.
d) By formerly persecuting Christians, God shows us that even those who attack Christianity may ultimately be making it propser. It is like Greek fire, if they throw water on the fire it only grows.
e) Today Christianity is almost entirely a religion of non-Jews, and people think this is largely Paul's fault and many people are anti-Paul and think he corrupted Christ's teachings, etc. However the fact remains that Paul was the most zealous Jew of his day, he was truly transformed by Christ. Also it can plainly be seen in the New Testament Jesus doing miracles for Gentiles, and Peter sitting on a Gentile's roof, performing miracles for Gentiles, and so on. Even John's gospel begins with something the Gentiles would understand more than the Jews (the word Logos, a word from Sumerian cuneiform)

Answer 3

A tent maker,Saul made effective the bringing of Christianity to the Gentiles and the making Christianity capable of becominf transcultural and universal.

Answer 4

Acts 10:10-sixteen 10 And he grew to grow to be very hungry, and might have eaten: yet on an identical time as they made waiting, he fell right into a trance, 11 And observed heaven opened, and a undeniable vessel descending unto him, because it have been a super sheet knit on the 4 corners, and enable all the way down to the earth: 12 wherein have been all way of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping issues, and fowls of the air. 13 And there got here a voice to him, upward thrust, Peter; kill, and consume. 14 yet Peter pronounced, no longer so, Lord; for I certainly have in no way eaten any element that's consumer-friendly or unclean. 15 And the voice [spake] unto him lower back the 2d time, What God hath cleansed, [that] call no longer thou consumer-friendly. 16This replaced into completed three times: and the vessel replaced into gained up lower back into heaven.

Answer 5

He killed the Apostles. He was present when Stephan was martyred. He was a pharisee, tent maker and highly learned. Jesus appeared to him and his life was forever changed. He recieved great insight into the scriptures and almost singlehandedly converted the whole contenent of Asia to Christ.

Answer 6

Greatest Savior of Judaism.

He introduced enough paganism into the religion of the renegades that he was confident his beloved Jews would not LOSE the Holy Covenant with G-D.

Greatest hijacking of a religion in the history of mankind.


"By deception thou shalt do War" -- Mossad
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Answer 7

I think he was some kind of tax collector and part time Pharisee.
He is credited with taking a small Jewish Sect and taking it global. This is on a par with getting arena football on "Monday Night Football."