How reliable is the Apostle Paul?

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How reliable is the Apostle Paul?

100\%. He was chosen by God Himself. That makes him as reliable as God chose him to be. God deliberately chose Paul to build the gentile church so He did not choose a liar.

What can you learn from Paul?

5 Lessons We Can Learn From Paul the Apostle

  • He didn’t live to please man. (Galatians 1:10) When I first came across this verse, I chuckled at how sassy Paul sounded.
  • He was humble.
  • He was selfless.
  • He was focused on God’s calling in his life.
  • He lived with eternity in mind.

Why is the apostle Paul so important?

St. Paul is often considered to be the most important person after Jesus in the history of Christianity. His epistles (letters) have had enormous influence on Christian theology, especially on the relationship between God the Father and Jesus, and on the mystical human relationship with the divine.

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What was Paul’s relationship to Jesus?

Paul was a follower of Jesus Christ who famously converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus after persecuting the very followers of the community that he joined. However, as we will see, Paul is better described as one of the founders of the religion rather than a convert to it.

How long did it take Paul to become an apostle?

The New Testament accounts. Paul’s conversion experience is discussed in both the Pauline epistles and in the Acts of the Apostles. According to both sources, Saul/Paul was not a follower of Jesus and did not know him before his crucifixion. Paul’s conversion occurred 4-7 years after Jesus’s crucifixion in 30 AD.

Can we trust Paul in Acts of the Apostles?

We can not trust anything attributed to Paul in Acts of the Apostles, unless it is verified by Paul’s own account — not even that he was called Saul or that he came from Tarsus.

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Was Paul an apostle in the Bible?

Paul was not an apostle in the traditional sense (Acts 1:21-22). Nevertheless he did claim to receive a special apostleship directly from Jesus and it appears from the book of Acts and 2 Pet 3:16-17 that Paul was accepted by “the twelve” as an apostle, even if not one in exactly the same way they were.

Are the Old Testament writings of the Apostle Paul inspired?

These other Scriptures were the Old Testament writings, works referred to as inspired by God by the apostle Paul (2 Timothy 3:16-17), the apostle Peter (2 Peter 1:20-21), as well as Jesus (Matthew 5:17-20). Peter here makes the clearest comment in the New Testament that Paul’s writings are inspired.

Did Paul really receive truth from Jesus?

They entrusted to him the ministry to the Gentiles, which is no small thing!!! (see Acts 15). Paul clearly claimed to receive truth from Jesus, as did the other apostles. Given his accpetance by the apostles and the elders in Jerusalem, all (or virtually all) Christians have accepted his letters as inspired and as part of the New Testament.

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