2007-10-06 12:45:28 · 9 answers · asked by Chelle M 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
obedience
2007-10-06 12:47:54 · answer #1 · answered by Robert K 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
By sharing the eternal presence of the Lord thy God.
12 houses and not one among you shall falter in the day which will come to pass where your child will too know his real Father in Heaven...on EARTH! AND it is said that thy words have no appeal, no reverence. Take up thy cross now children. Lean on no man for understanding, but it be even as it is the Christ that is in you. Know him as he knows that which I say verily unto you, stop the fight share the land eat the fish and love thy neighbor. You must know the sky and as it is more known even with the might of mans instruments, it is still the sky of God. The darkness is only the shadow which hastens the true kinship which is in every man woman child and creature upon the earth. That which makes a man more present will soon blacken the Earth if not by forfeit alone. The chaff of new understanding becomes but the mislead into misdeed. Slow thine desires and forsake anything which might dull His vision of his child's future. As in Earth as it is in Heaven. It IS our Earth. Our universe. Keep it...well, let's just keep it clean! -Paul
Now I've got to fix some more vacuums. Rent's due.
2007-10-06 21:03:29 · answer #2 · answered by paulj0557-vacuum cleaner expert 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Paul is really the founder of Christianity. There was no 'historical' Jesus. The Christ that was revealed to Paul "by God" was a 'spiritual' Christ, who existed in 'heavenly' realms. The 'historical' Jesus was not invented until after 70 AD... the gospel of Mark... LONG after Paul was dead and gone. Anyway... Paul's 'Christ' interested Greek intellectuals because it was a midrashic updating of Jewish scripture... a re-interpretation, incorporating 'modern' Hellenistic thought... Wisdom... Logos... the Greek 'Cynic' philosophy, with a little bit of 'Stoic' tossed in.
Anywat... later evangelicals invented the fictional 'Jesus' character of the gospels, because the 'common' folk that they were trying to preach to didn't 'get' all the philosophical mumbo-jumbo... they needed a point of reference they could relate to... they needed miracles... so they invented them.
It was a classic case of "Give the suckers what they want." P.T. Barnum would have loved being there.
2007-10-06 19:55:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Paul was a devout Jew who could interpret the Messiah
into the Greek concept of Christ, the anointed one.
It was the perfect time in history for this to be accomplished.
Christianity has revolutionized civilization & society since.
2007-10-06 19:50:06 · answer #4 · answered by Robert S 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Paul actually didn`t.
Linus. a roman took over the church in 67 AD and began the integration of church and state. The state actually spread the religion as a way of controlling its subjects.
Paul actually committed suicide in 68AD in Greece.
2007-10-06 19:57:38 · answer #5 · answered by Terry M 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He brought God's good news to the Gentiles.
2007-10-06 19:48:17 · answer #6 · answered by tim 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He walked 20,000 mi preaching the gospel!
2007-10-06 19:48:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
By changing everything he taught ...
2007-10-06 19:48:08 · answer #8 · answered by ◦Delylah◦ 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
he didn't. Constantine did
2007-10-06 19:48:12 · answer #9 · answered by uz 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋