The "Real" Paul

Is the Paul portrayed in the Book of Acts the same as the Paul we encounter in the Pauline corpus? No. This video discusses one of the significant differences.

Links:

For Bart Ehrman's book "Jesus, Interrupted"--

http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Interrupted-Revealing-Hidden-Contradictions/dp/00...

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Jesus-Interrupted/Bart-D-Ehrman/e/9780061173...

http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=BK_HARP...


Part one of ToddAllenGates's video series on the problem of suffering--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viqVF3a--P4


Evid3nc3's series "Deconversion"--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12rP8ybp13s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf5q6VFn17o


Music at start: "Tico, Tico"

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[Paviocurto77]

loved the intro ... Cheers from Brazil

[ProfMTH]

@Paviocurto77 Thanks.

[finderfinder100]

@Subhanallah82 I think part of it for me is the whole road to Damascus conversion which just seems to smack of something a con man would try to sell.

[Subhanallah82]

@MrZardoz777 "And it's clear from his actual writings that he was not a humble man"...my thoughts exactly.  I read his epistles in the New Testament, and more than anything else, it left me thinking, "Wow...awfully arrogant..."

[Subhanallah82]

@finderfinder100 Me too! Reading his letters in the New Testament...I always got an odd vibe... just a feeling in my heart that something wasn't right. Comes off as very arrogant, awfully full of himself. Sure loves to talk about himself, and glorify himself...

Without a doubt... a liar. Deceiver. False prophet. False apostle.

[akanippy]

@siannarino Paul would lie in order to convert people!. How shocking – Religious people will do anything to perpetuate their superstitious nonsense. We would all be better off without them. These frauds claim to occupy the moral high ground. Yet they behave appallingly

[aryasangha0125]

I am an atheist. I believe in the book of Acts, Paul was referring to the worship of the "Unknown God" when he mentioned there ignorance. I don't believe he was referring to there worship of all of the other "pagan" gods. He believed that by acknowledging the "Unknown God", they were worshiping the "on true God", but only in there ignorance.

[themakerofmine]

I didn't ask to be an atheist. Praise Bill Gates.

[siannarino]

WHY IS THIS SO SCHOCKING??? DID'NT PAUL HIMSELF SAY " I SAY WHATEVER I HAVE TO,DEPENDING ON WHO HE IS TALKING WITH AT THE TIME?? HE HIMSELF SAID HE WOULD LIE IN ORDER TO CONVERT PEOPLE... HEY, WHAT THE HELL, IT'S PAUL...

[finderfinder100]

Something about Paul has always bothered me. Still haven't put my finger on it.

[Antarblue]

Evil vs Suffering this is the crux. It's the difference between the Abrahamic worldview which generates monotheistc Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Easteern worldview which generates pantheistic and non-theistc Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism. The former is moralisic believing that morality can be enforced by rules; the latter being essentially existential, side-stepping moral philosophy, offering techniques to elimate suffering.