UUGGGG OK Listen closely. Just pretend I am important. If Paul had a daydream it was a daydream he had and the account is the truth. If he had no daydream the account is a fabrication.
Go with the latter.
After you ask yourself something. If you met God on the road would you remember it verbatim?
Paul's account of meeting Jesus on the road to Damascus, as Paul was on his way to persecute early Christians yet again, is recorded three different times in the book of Acts. Acts 9, 22, and 26.
Paul had two companions with him. In one account the companions heard the voice speaking but didn't see anything. Next account, they saw Paul speaking to something but heard nothing.
The other account, they all saw and heard.
Have you ever noticed an inconsistency in threads about the Christian faith? Detractors and Poe's will argue it's all bogus and mythology and fable.
In a thread like this very often those with that same attitude in other threads will discount that other fables, as noted in the OP video, are valid as predating the Pauline account.
Jesus told his true anointed, which he did when he not only hand picked them but ritualized that baptism by washing their feet, Apostles that after he died if they met anyone who claimed they met Jesus anywhere, do not believe them.
He also told them that there would be false teachers who would perform signs and wonders in his name and yet were as wolves in sheeps clothing.
Paul affirmed he was an Apostle some 22 times in the new testament. He was referred to as an Apostle by others only 2. Paul repeatedly defended his self-appointment as one worthy of being equal to the other Apostles by saying he wasn't lying when he delivered his messages, supposedly from the ascended Jesus.
And at least once he argued one could believe his is a true Apostle because, and being he never knew Jesus he'd not know Jesus had warned his actual Disciples of this so that he ended up repeating almost verbatim what Jesus warned wolves in sheeps clothing would say, that he has performed signs and miracles and that should be proof he is an Apostle of the Lord.
He out of his own mouth defended himself using the words Jesus said would accompany false teachers.
And, most importantly, Paul was a Pharisee. He professed this of himself. He didn't use past tense. He said he was a Pharisee. He was learned. So he would know the proper language to use were he to have renounced that office. He didn't. He defended himself to the council that called him before them that he was a Pharisee.
A member of that community Jesus condemned as a pit of vipers.
Saul, Saul, why dost thow persecute me?
Would the ascended Yeshua have need to ask that of one member of the synagogue of satan that Jesus knew persecuted him while he was in the flesh?
And when Saul cried out at the sight of the light and the sound of the voice that first appeared to him on the road to Damascus and asked of it, lord is that you?
Remember what scripture tells us as to what is lord of this earth. It wouldn't therefore be a lie when that lord answered yes. While the rest would be that opponent of God leading his disciple to betray the mission Jesus left behind. Just as he'd tempted Jesus from it when Jesus walked the earth.
Think about it.
Also, you're arguing with people who condemn scripture and then defend it so as to say those who hold respect for it are wrong.
Those you're fighting against are enemies of the word. Don't be led to follow where they hope to lead. You shall know them by their fruits, as scripture tells us. Pay attention.
God is not mocked. :hug: God be with you always.
