So, Mary was married to Joseph, and then got a divorce, and then married this Cleopas? Do you know how likely that would have been? Are you also aware that there is no evidence, like many of the things you say, to even suggest that?
Mary was married to Joseph, and then got a divorce, and then married this Cleopas? Do you know how likely that would have been? Are you also aware that there is no evidence, like many of the things you say, to even suggest that?
I bring a lot more evidence to the table than you have ever been able to, or could ever possibly, come up with sunshine, all you can do is deny, without any evidence whatsoever, that any thing in the bible ever happened,
And no, Paul (who is Saul) never met Jesus. Jesus was dead. He died on the cross.
Saul the Christian persecutor, and Paul the Christian apostle were two different persons who occupied the one body in two different points in time. And yes, Jesus was murdered by sinful men to which he had been handed over to by the lying hypocritical and accusing authorities of the Jewish church, but death had no power over him as he was the first to inherit his share of the immortal body of our saviour whose immortal body was torn asunder and poured out as fire on the heads of all who had believed his words as spoken through his obedient servant Jesus, who spoke not one word on his own authority, but only that which he was commanded to say by our Lord and saviour, which spirit descended upon the head of Jesus in the form of a dove. In his new blinding body of light he appeared to Saul the persecuter on the road to Damascus and identified himself as Jesus of Nazareth.
There was no resurrection. Instead, what happened was something that was very common in the first century. The dead "appeared" to the living. It was something that commonly happened.Today, we know that one should not take those stories to be true though.
There was a resurrection, and I wonder if you will agree that there are tens of thousands of people around the world today, who still visit mediums believing that they are talking to, not their resurrected loved ones, but their dead loved ones.
Paul simply claims this vision in a way to try to gain authority.
By Jingo you know a lot about people in the past don’t you, tell me please, did my grandfather (Who, like Paul , you know nothing about) really do what he claimed to have done during the first world war, or was that Just to make us think that he was some sort of hero?
What Paul was teaching was not what Jesus taught. James, the brother of Jesus, and Paul opposed each other.
Ahh, So we are now admitting that James the son of Alphaeus/Cleopas is the son of Mary and the brother to Jesus. That’s a start isn’t it?
James, as his brother also had, observed Judaism and were Jewish-Christians
O how it gladdens my heart to see your belief in Gods word beginning to evolve.
as opposed to Paul, a Pagan-Christian (modern definition).
And who, apart from godless atheists and agnostics, define Paul as a pagan Christian?
So it is not logical to assume that Jesus told Paul one thing while having taught James another. Why would he purposely set-up to factions of the same belief that opposed each other?
James, Paul, Peter, and even Barnabus, would often come to grips with each other, but they would sit down and iron out their differences, basically they all interpreted the commands of our Lord and saviour as spoken through his obedient servant Jesus, in much the same way, although differences of opinion would sometimes come up as is the case with any and every group.
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