Apostle Paul?

Why are so many people against Apostle Paul?

well....Paul wrote half of the new testament
but did never meet Jesus

that incident of conversion seems like a stroke
going blind
seeing and hearing a vision
and the radical change of person

he didn't want to be called Saul anymore
and he didn't want to persecute Christians anymore
he wanted to BE a Christian

but I won't say no altogether
hardship can lead to a better frame of mind and heart

and I don't say no to miracles either
I've had some events that I can't explain

still...…...Paul leads a frame of mind that draws a crowd to nod their heads
just do that
nod your head
ACT as though you have faith and faith will come

I don't follow Paul
I have reasons to believe

syo said:

Why are so many people against Apostle Paul?

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Christianity.

syo said:

Why are so many people against Apostle Paul?

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Many do not understand him and are confused.

syo said:

Why are so many people against Apostle Paul?

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Because some are under a clearly false impression that Paul undermined what Jesus taught. If that had been the case, then why in the world would Peter and the other apostles have anything to do with him. [notice that this is not a question]

Paul may have been a late comer to the pool of Apostleship but he took his leadership to the grave as he became a martyr like Stephen. I understand he seems passionate but that is why the Lord chose him. Not because of his worthy actions, but because of his worthy heart. It is better to be an imperfect active servant of the Lord than a quiet perfect believer who speaks to no-one. God is the judge of his perfection rather than current, modern thinking. Being a quiet perfectionist is much easier than being an active advocate for truth.
I wish we had much more of the writing of Peter and John. I wish we had a thousand fold more of the words of the Lord himself. However, I would gladly drink from the pages of Paul, far more so than suffer his persecution with him.

syo said:

Why are so many people against Apostle Paul?

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Because Paul, speaking by the Spirit of God, was against so many things they want to do.

syo said:

Why are so many people against Apostle Paul?

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It's a complex topic but I think it's that he himself stands for the root over everything bad about Christianity, while at the same time standing for the things that he is claimed to be opposed to.
Alongside that his very inclusion in the Bible debunks the Christian idea that Jesus ended Prophecy or Prophethood, as there is Paul, then other writers of Epistles, plus St John of Patmos. Anyway, it's easy to see Paul as a usurper, hard not to.

Because his private letters are worshiped as the Word of God, a title which should rightly belong to Christ alone. If Paul were just another early theologian, like a Clement or an Irenaus who only theology geeks and historians ever talk about, I would have no great grudge against the man. But his failings become dangerous when they become the inarguable boundaries of community life. I'm not surprised or even truly offended if a 2nd century man is a touch misogynistic, or doesn't see manumission of slaves as a moral imperative, or spent pages of his letters raising funds for poor people in the Holy Land that may not have ever made it to them. Those were the times, and people are people. But I'm not going to live by those words of his, no, nor account them as equally important to me as the gospel itself. I'm nearly certain Paul himself would have agreed with me, and been outraged by the elevation of his letters (especially the ones he didn't actually write!). The man had a temper, after all, and a healthy sense of pessimism about sectarianism and the likelihood of "human wisdom".

syo said:

Why are so many people against Apostle Paul?

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I don’t know I’m totally for him. He used to be Saul who persecuted Jews. He was transformed in Paul when he became an apostle. He wrote majority of the New Testament. I think he was one of the best apostles. My opinion.