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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">We have Paul's own admission of a deliberate lie in Romans <a href="http://bible.cc/romans/3-7.htm" style="color: #517291;">3:7</a> and the use of guile (deception) in <span data-mce-mark="1"><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20corinthians%2012:16&version=ASV" style="color: #517291;">2 Cor. 12:16</a> </span>to advance his gospel.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">This is clearly bad fruit, if proven, because Jesus says a "false witness" is contrary to the way to "eternal life." (Matt <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt%2015:18-19&version=KJV" style="color: #517291; outline: none;">15:18-19</a> - Jesus' answer how to have eternal life includes Jesus saying obey the commandments, listing among them not to bear "false witness.")<br /></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Paul says we should trust his words as based upon revelation from the "Lord" (presumably Jesus) to Paul. See for example 1 Cor. 11:23 as explained in Tuck's Commentary <a href="https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/tuck/st_paul%27s_claim_to_direct_revelation.htm" style="color: #517291;">here</a>. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;">Because Yahweh invested Jesus with a unique authority that by-passed the normal requirement that a prophet had to quote YHWH to be accepted. Without quoting YHWH one could not be a prophet. However, YHWH spoke over Jesus' head in front of multiple witnesses "Listen to Him!" and "This is my beloved son who pleases me greatly." See <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark+9%3A7&version=NIV">Mark 9:7</a>; <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+17%3A5&version=NIV">Matt 17:5</a>. See also <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke+3%3A22&version=NIV">Luke 3:22</a>; <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+3%3A16&version=NIV">Matt 3:16</a>. </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"><br /></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;">Yahweh did so to invoke remembrance of Deut 18:15-19 where YHWH said He will send "The Prophet" whose every word would be from YHWH, andYHWH then says this is why we must "listen to him." Peter had heard that voice from heaven "Listen to Him." Thus, in Peter's second major sermon, Peter quotes </span><span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Deut 18:15-19 in </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=acts+3%3A22-23&version=NIV" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; color: #517291;">Acts 3:22-23</a>. <span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;"> Peter leads 5,000 to believe Jesus is "The Prophet," insisting that we must "obey him" or be "destroyed" from among God's people for disobeying "The Prophet." </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;">For more detail on the unique status of Jesus' words over those who cannot or will not quote YHWH as a source, se</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt; color: #494a44;">e our article <a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/recommendedreading/532-the-jesus-words-only-principle-explained.html">Jesus' Words Only Principle Proven from Deut 18:15-19</a>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Paul asks us to accept he has revelations from "the Lord" without quoting Jesus or Yahweh in his epistles to support any of Paul's teachings. Paul clearly explains why he does not do so -- he was ordered not to repeat the "Lord's" words heard in a revelation in the "third heaven."</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">For when Paul says he is teaching based upon "revelation" from the "Lord," Paul says he received them when taken up to the "third heaven." Paul then explains why we should not to be surprised Paul does not quote Jesus for his teachings. Paul was "not permitted" to "tell"about them per 2 Cor. 12:4 in the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+corinthians+12%3A4&version=NIV">NIV</a>, or was advised that it was <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+corinthians+12%3A4&version=ASV">"unlawful to"</a> repeat them in the <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+corinthians+12%3A4&version=ASV">ASV</a> -- what he heard said in that third heaven. This prohibition explains why Paul never quotes a revelation from Jesus for any of Paul's teachings in his epistles. (For more on the question about when Paul ever quotes Jesus in his epistles, see NOTE after END for this article.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">As a result of these claims by Paul that his teachings are based upon private "revelations" which he is "not permitted" to repeat, Paul is <strong>claiming to be a prophet</strong> of the "Lord" but in only that <strong>highly constrained sense</strong>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">If there is any doubt Paul is claiming to be a prophet, let's remember most of Christianity today takes all Paul's words at face value as if Jesus revealed them to him despite Paul never quoting Jesus for any of Paul's teachings. These passages cited above about revelations "unlawful" to repeat are the major proofs offered that we must accept Paul as a prophet.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Hence, we have a duty from Jesus to test Paul's fruits because Paul like any other would-be prophet of things heard in "heaven" -- even if not quoted -- must be tested by "fruits" as Jesus instructed in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+7%3A15-16&version=NIV" style="color: #517291;">Matthew 7:15-16</a>. There Jesus says "beware the false prophets" whom you can recognize by "<strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">their fruits</span></strong>."</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Bearing "false witness" is a bad fruit. See Matt <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt%2015:18-19&version=KJV" style="color: #517291; outline: none;">15:18-19</a> where Jesus says the way to eternal life includes not bearing a "false witness."</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Paul in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+23%3A1&version=NIV">Acts 23:1</a> </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+23%3A1&version=NIV" style="color: #517291;"></a><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">is testifying in front of the Sanhedrin Court. The High Priest is present. After cursing the High Priest, Paul in <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+23%3A4-5&version=NIV">Acts 23:4-5</a> </span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">acknowledges he was subject to <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Exodus+22%3A28&version=KJV">Exodus 22:28</a> --</span><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"> “you shall not...</span><strong style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: #ff0000;">curse</span> </strong><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">a ruler of your people.” Paul had cursed the High Priest by saying “God will smite you.” <span style="color: #494a44; font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;"> (</span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+23%3A3&version=KJV" style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px;">Acts 23:3</a>.) </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">As to the proper translation, even as mainstream a source as you can find admits it. The Bible Study.org website shamelessly explains in "<a href="https://www.biblestudy.org/question/did-paul-place-a-curse-on-high-priest.html">Who did Paul curse</a>" in Acts 23 that Paul's reference to a whited wall meant a "designated area where the public could urinate." It explains "the Hebrew word koniao [adopted in Greek] translated as <strong>whitened</strong> [in Acts 23:3] <strong>actually refers</strong> to spreading lime dust which is still used <strong>in outdoor toilets</strong>." Bible Study.org concludes Paul is thus "referring to <strong>someone</strong> as a <strong>wall upon which the public could urinate.....</strong>" </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Thereafter, the interchange went like this according to Luke who was </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px 60px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 18pt;">Those standing near Paul said: "How dare you insult the High Priest?" Paul replied: "Brothers <strong><span style="color: #ff0000;">I did not realize he was the High Priest</span></strong>, for it is written 'Do not speak evil about the ruler of your people.'" (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2023%3A4-5&version=NIV">Acts 23:4-5 NIV.</a>)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span id="en-WEB-27845" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Paul's reviling and cursing of the High Priest was because the High Priest ordered Paul slapped because he thought Paul lied when Paul said he has “lived in all good conscience before God till this day." (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+23%3A1&version=NIV" style="color: #517291;">Acts 23:1</a>.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span id="en-WEB-27845" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Furthermore, lest we forget, the second consequence of proving Paul lied is this means Paul knowingly violated Exodus 22:28 by cursing the High Priest. Another major sin, as Paul admits a knowing violation of that law was a major sin. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span id="en-WEB-27845" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Second, Paul also knowingly violated Exodus 22:28 by "speaking evil" of the High Priest as a urinal wall. Paul construed the meaning of Exodus 22:28 in Acts 23:4-5 as prohibiting "speaking evil" of someone. Something so vulgar is certainly evil. Another major sin.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span id="en-WEB-27845" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Then why did Luke record them? </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span id="en-WEB-27845" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Because ironically, Luke as a Gentile would never be the wiser, for the lies of Paul could only be known had Luke known of <a href="http://www.redeemerofisrael.org/2014/02/the-crown-of-jewish-high-priest.html#:~:text=February%2019%2C%202014-,The%20Crown%20of%20the%20High%20Priest,28%3A36%2D38)." style="font-family: 'times new roman', times; font-size: 24px; color: #517291;">Exodus 28:36-38 KJV</a> that Paul had to know from his time as a student of Gamaliel and his personal encounters with the High Priest that only the High Priest wore this gold band on his forehead "Holiness to the Lord." Luke obviously did not know that gold band on the High Priest was unique. Thus, Luke gullibly reported the truth of what he heard in Court, assuming Paul would never bear false witness in Court. <br /><br /></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">NOTE ON PAUL's ONE QUOTE OF THE LORD FROM A PRIVATE MESSAGE ONLY FOR PAUL in 2 Cor. 12 </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Paul gives one exception right after his "third-heaven" account that said he was not permitted to repeat the words revealed in the third heaven.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">This exception does not reflect a teaching for us but only was a private message for Paul. For Paul quotes the "Lord" only once in his epistles talking to Paul when the "Lord" told him he would leave Paul subject to an "Angel of Satan" for his own good -- to teach Paul to be humble, and thus the Lord" said he would leave Paul subject to the stinger in his flesh from this "Angel of Satan" (<a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+12%3A7&version=MOUNCE" style="color: #517291;">2 Cor 12:7</a> Mounce "angelos Satanas"). Paul's Lord says this is because the "grace" given Paul to that point was enough. See <a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+12%3A7-9&version=NIV" style="color: #517291;">2 Cor. 12:7-9 NIV</a>.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;" data-mce-mark="1">Most Paulinists are repulsed by this passage in 2 Cor. 12, and claim it cannot mean what it implies -- that the true Lord Jesus left Paul under the dominion of Satan. See discussion in our article: <a href="https://www.jesuswordsonly.com/recommendedreading/721-paul-never-served-the-role-of-a-messenger-of-jesus.html" style="color: #517291;">Was Paul A True Messenger of Jesus' Words?</a> </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span id="en-WEB-27845" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><a href="/component/content/article/1-jwo/427-did-paul-ever-deliberately-lie.html">Paul's Further Lies in Same Sanhedrin Testimony That He was On Trial over Belief in Resurrecton - Acts 26:6-8</a>. </span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong><span id="en-WEB-27845" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">Comments on This Article. </span></strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span id="en-WEB-27845" style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;">(I promised to post non-hateful comments even if I do not agree with them. Thus, what is posted below are varied and different takes on the same subject matter.)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px; color: #494a44; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times;"><strong>Professor Barrie Wilson</strong> (author of <strong>How Jesus Became a Christian</strong>, and the newly released I<strong>n Search Of Messiah</strong>). (August 4, 2020)</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Hi Doug,</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;"> You can take your analysis further.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;"> 1. We can test the account of Paul in the Book of Acts versus what Paul</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">says in his genuine letters. That establishes that Acts' Paul is not Paul's</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Paul. It's interesting that Acts is the one book of the Bible we can</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">fact-check. That analysis shows that the Book of Acts cannot be relied</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">on for accurate information about Paul. It is a mythologized Paul.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;"> 2. Then, once we have the base -- Paul's 7 genuine letters -- the analysis</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">can proceed further, to show that Paul's positions are at variance from</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">those who knew the historical Jesus. He never had the benefit of a 3 year</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">mentoring process as did the original disciples. And Paul had the</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">temerity to call them agents of Satan. So who lies?</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;"> 3. There are more mythologized Pauls -- e.g. the Paul in the Pastoral</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Epistles. The Paul in Acts of Thecla. People in the 2nd century CE</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">wanted a heroic Paul and they created one.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;"> I think the more that people come to see how different Paul is from</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Jesus, the more the teachings of the latter stand out. On my website</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt;"><span style="color: black;">(</span><a href="http://www.barriewilson.com/">www.barriewilson.com</a><span style="color: black;">) I have a section called Early</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">Christianity--Explorations. This <strong>probes in detail Paul vs Jesus</strong>. It's</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">message is in <strong>keeping with yours.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;"> Meanwhile I have a new book that's being released this week in the</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">USA and Canada. I've attached some information about it. I'm sure</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">you'd agree with much of it (not all, I imagine) and especially</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">the last chapter.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">****</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;">All the best and thanks for contacting me.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 18pt; color: black;"> Barrie (August 4, 2020) </p><iframe style="width:120px;height:240px;" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" src="//ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&OneJS=1&Operation=GetAdHtml&MarketPlace=US&source=ss&ref=as_ss_li_til&ad_type=product_link&tracking_id=wwwjesuswords-20&language=en_US&marketplace=amazon®ion=US&placement=B07ZHNNQRJ&asins=B07ZHNNQRJ&linkId=c52e3df3049d944f92610e1e7824816b&show_border=true&link_opens_in_new_window=true"></iframe>
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