and why do some psychoanalyst think he was homosexual, is christianity on the decline and is the truth rearing its lovely head after all these years
2007-11-02 16:01:21 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
plato bee whats up guy, questions to tough for your shaky religion
2007-11-02 16:41:11 · update #1
I knew he was a misogynist, an epileptic and an opportunist of short stature and unprepossessing appearance, but I never realised he was gay too. It's truly a miracle that he managed to proselytise and spread the word of christianity to all corners of the known world. It least it shows god in a good light as an equal opportunities for the disabled,non-homophobic employer.
2007-11-02 17:13:43 · answer #1 · answered by alienfiend1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Apostle Paul was a great Christian man, and certianly not an homosexual, and to answer the rest of your question there is no doubt that Christianity is on the decline in America but in other countries Christianity is on the rise. I will not say where of course because very few countries even allow Christianity but it seems that the harder a country tries to keep it out the more it gets in and I say Praise the Lord. There are actually countries today with more Christians in them than in America and now America is the number one place to send a missionary. God is still working but most of Americans think that they don't need God because they have got it so good but the time will come when they will wish they would have worshiped the creator more than the creature.
2007-11-02 18:00:20 · answer #2 · answered by victor 7707 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
No, and how could you possibly show that scientifically? Nor was his teaching different to Christ's teaching.
Churchianity is in decline, but spiritual Christianity has always been practised by very few people and has always been on the edge of extinction. That great Hindu man, M. K. Gandhi pointed that out very well with his joke about it being a very good idea, but no-one is doing it. He was right about that.
Paul lived the gospel, he paid a high price for his faithfulness during his life and he lost his life as a martyr when Nero beheaded him. You could do little better than follow his example of faithfulness and dedication, but he was so modest, he told his admirers to follow Christ instead. I would love to see the truth of the gospel practised more than it is and I need to practise it more and more myself. That is the way to find Jesus. Unfortunately, the people who think they might find him in a church, end up sorely disappointed.
2007-11-02 23:43:53 · answer #3 · answered by Steven Ring 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK this dude has to take a lot of flak.
1. Women; well, people weren't very pro-feminine in those days; and the passage about women keeping silent in church is said by some scholars to be a later addition.
2. Homosexual? Well, Jewish people were taught to hate Roman ['Pagan'] sexual mores and customs as being alien.
3. His theories on Christ? Well, Paul did NOT teach that Jesus the Christ was 'Very God of Very God,' but people later twisted Paul's interpretations of the role of Christ. It's more of a case of Paul being twisted by later clerics than of Paul twisting Jesus' life and mission.
I have to admire the man. Whatever his faults, he definitely had guts, and kept going whatever happened. Great lad!
2007-11-03 01:50:13 · answer #4 · answered by Jerusalem Delivered 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Going to a talk about 'the parting of the ways' when the variety of early followers of Jesus grdually broke away from the similarly various forms of 1st century Judaism
Paul was ok
2007-11-02 23:48:22 · answer #5 · answered by Plato 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, he wanted to spread Christianity in Europe. Faced with this impossible task, he used the Hebrew terms such as "son of God" to his advantage and made enough compromises that it became easier for Europeans to embrace a very Semitic faith. Paul must have hoped that eventually European Christians would see the light and figure out that Jesus was a prophet, not a literal "Son of God.
2007-11-02 16:07:55 · answer #6 · answered by Sincere-Advisor 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
2 Timothy4:3-4 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
2007-11-02 16:08:10 · answer #7 · answered by he_returns_soon 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That's what I like to see. People who can confidently psychoanalyse from a distance of 2,000 years.
2007-11-02 17:37:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
God is really calling you, isn't he? Once these questions have been ironed out, you will be a regular at Sunday service.
2007-11-02 16:29:50 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋