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To: imardmd1

Paul made four journeys. Saul/Paul was well educated and was fairly high in the Jewish hierarchy before he became Paul. I am uncomfortable with your views and they are not as I believe.


27 posted on 04/22/2016 12:03:16 PM PDT by Lumper20 (Lyin Ted lies more then Hillary)
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To: Lumper20
Paul made four journeys.

That is true. The last we know of (an some think there may have been one to Iberia, that is not recorded) was to Rome, from which some of his letters were written.

Saul/Paul was well educated . . .

That is also quite true. He was in training under Rabbi ben Gamaliel, supposedly to be a teacher himself of the Sanhedrin. Furthermore, after his salvation he was trained for about three years in the Gospel in the Arabian desert by the Risen Jesus Himself, Paul went back to his hometown Tarsus, a cosmopolitan Greco-Roman university town, and it is supposed that he there got a college education in Gentile philosophy and ways so as to be prepared to be a missionary to the uncircumcised Gentiles. That in itself took about eleven years.

. . . and was fairly high in the Jewish hierarchy before he became Paul.

Correct. That suggests that he might well have been married and had a child, because that was one of the prerequisites for the Sanhedrin, Of course, the married part is conjecture, but not that he was a disciple of ben Gamaliel, a Pharisee of the Pharisees.

I am uncomfortable with your views and they are not as I believe.

That is a really good and courteous way to write of your discomfort. Perhaps you could enumerate at least one or two things of what I wrote you, and see if I can explain the point I made so as to at least give us a basis for further discussion.

29 posted on 04/22/2016 3:05:35 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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