All of Jesus' Apostles were Jews if I'm not mistaken and Paul who was a Jew persecuted the church, and then followed Jesus.
And the president is a Christian.
The Savior of Christians (or those that believe in Jesus if you like) said:
Mark 16:15, “And He said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the Gospel to every creature.
They can start with the creatures in the woods and seas, don't come knocking on my door.
Paul did not persecute the Church, he invented the Church and that Jesus was God.
The president is a Christian but he is not a zealot that is trying to hasten the End of days in his lifetime. If you are familiar with the Bible the End of Days was supposed to happen during Paul's lifetime.
We're still waiting...
Wish the IRS would stay completely out of my life as well.
"Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's"
and of course if it wasn't for the irs and property taxes etc, you wouldn't have the security to think about stuff. you'd be too busy living like it was somalia....
That's what Saul want's the ignorant masses to believe. He wrote the book.
Actually he was an opportunist and a businessman. You'd have to be a con artist to sell this product.
It used to be easy to fool people into gibberish when they were superstitious and uneducated. However modern con artists and religions are still a dime a dozen: Jonestown, the Waco Whackos, the UFO gays, Robertson, Joseph Smith, etc. Check your local Tea Party, find all the true believers there....Jesus freaks, gun nuts, generic obese suburbanites, and the super rich.
Is there a lot of historical evidence that is available to validate these assertions of Saul making this stuff up? Didn't many believers die for their faith including Paul? This was so important to them that they wanted to die for a business venture?
If this was so easy for anyone to do why has it lasted so long? Been so central to so many events on this planet? Why are there not tens of thousands more of these business entrepreneurs with writings that have had this type of effect?
I have never heard anyone say what you just said, so I would be curious to know where the proof or evidence resides.
"Is there a lot of historical evidence that is available to validate these assertions of Saul making this stuff up?"
These so far. The Saul "Paul" was alone trying to make Jesus a God, which Jesus never claimed.
First and Second Esdras (150-100 BC)
Tobit (200 BC)
Judith (150 BC)
Additions to Esther (140-130 BC)
Wisdom of Solomon (30 BC)
Ecclesiasticus, otherwise known as The Wisdom of Jesus son of Sirach (132 BC)
Baruch (150-50 BC)
Letter of Jeremiah (300-100 BC)
Song of the Three Holy Children, an addition in the Greek version of Daniel 3 (170-160 BC)
Susanna (200-0 BC)
Bel and the Dragon (100 BC)
Additions to Daniel, or the Prayer of Azariah (200-0 BC)
Prayer of Manasseh (100-0 BC)
First Maccabees (110 BC)
Second Maccabees (110-170 BC)
Epistle of Barnabas
First (and Second) Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians
The letter of the Smyrnaeans (also known as The Martyrdom of Polycarp)
The Shepherd of Hermas
The Book of Enoch
The Gospel of Judas (130-170 AD)
The Gospel of Thomas (140-170 AD)
The Psalms of Solomon
The Odes of Solomon
The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
Second Baruch
The Books of Adam and Eve
The Acts of Phillip
The Apocalypse of Peter
The Gospel of the Nativity of Mary
The Gospel of Nicodemus
The Gospel of the Saviour’s Infancy
The History of Joseph the Carpenter
The Acts of Paul (including Paul and Thecla)
The Seven Epistles of Ignatius
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians
Well that will give me a couple of things to read.
Might take awhile.
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