Did Paul Really KNOW Jesus??

Response to text comment on video where I assert he did. Verdict: I dunno, but I'll talk about it.

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[tonyschmoeredux]

No he was "apostle to the nations(gentiles" as he called himself. Judas the traitor was replaced by mathias.

[LuciousVBogeymanProd]

Yeah, i guess I know that. Somehow it didn't register a caveat when I was dressing down the wicked slave. :oP

In the 2008 DC drama, I seem to remember Paul saying explicitly that he knew Jesus or something like that. I attribute my error to the Watchtower Society. :oP

In any case, living with Jesus or being visited by Jesus in spirit lends the same credibility to Paul that I suggested. Writing the damn thing that Venomfangx cited is the only point I really needed to make.

[tonyschmoeredux]

better now. * saul (paul) was reared and educated in tarsus which was a very pro greek place. he was trying to destroy the christians. when on the road to damascus the ascended jesus 'appeared' to saul in a blinding light. saul converted and not long after seem well accepted by the apostles. he wrote most of the NT epistles. he and jesus met but thats about all.

[LuciousVBogeymanProd]

That sounds familiar. That was a whole damn "My book of Bible Stories" topic or something wasn't it? I knew that Paul was Saul, the whole matter of Paul not really "being with" Jesus when he was alive was fuzzy.

So Paul was like the 13th apostle?

[tonyschmoeredux]

this vids not playing, gets stuck at 106.

[LuciousVBogeymanProd]

It plays for me. Probably wasn't done processing. Let me know.

[GwydionMapDon]

Supposedly he had a vision on the road, but that's not exactly knowing him personally.

Anyway, it's all BS. Paul's letters clearly went well beyond Jesus' supposed teachings. Whatever. Religion is shit.

[Geodge]

Cool :) I think that was me who asked it.

Yea, it's a fun question given the story. It goes, Jesus was dead and Paul, who persecuted Christians, never met him. Then one day, he "met" a blast of heavenly light and disembodied voice calling himself Jesus. Paul was frazzled by all this and sounds like he and Jesus didn't really chat much. Paul (temp. blinded) was then led back into town where he enlisted as a Christian and they took over from there.

Besides the gospels, Paul is all over the NT.

[nathanaelstacy1]

Saul was traveling down the road with some other people, when suddenly there was a great flash of light and a thunderous booming voice (kind of like people experience sometimes when struck by lightening). There was no source of the voice -- the Bible states directly that, although Saul was blinded (as can happen with a lightening strike) the people traveling with Saul were not, but saw nobody speaking, just a disembodied voice. So I guess the answer depends on your definition of "meet."