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Placing Paul in this time period is done on the basis of his reported conflicts with other early contemporary figures in the Jesus movement including James and Peter, [251] the references to Paul and his letters by Clement of Rome writing in the late 1st century, [252] his reported issues in Damascus from 2 Corinthians 11:32 which he says took ...
Paul mentioned details in his letters such as that Jesus was a Jew, born of the line of David, and had biological brothers. [55] According to Simon Gathercole, Paul's description of Jesus's life on Earth, his personality, and family tend to establish that Paul regarded Jesus as a natural person, rather than an allegorical figure. [85]
Although Paul the Apostle provides little biographical information about Jesus [55] compared to the Gospels, he was a contemporary of Jesus and does make it clear that he considers Jesus to have been a real person [note 1] and a Jew.
In Paul's thinking, instead of humanity divided as "Israel and the nations" which is the classic understanding of Judaism, we have "Israel after the flesh" (i.e., the Jewish people), non-Jews whom he calls "the nations," (i.e., Gentiles) and a new people called "the church of God" made of all those whom he designates as "in Christ" (1 Corinthians 10:32).
Both Paul and Clement affirmed that he was a Christian in Corinth. [154] 1 Cor 3:6: Aretas IV Philopatris: King of the Nabateans: According to Paul, Aretas' governor in Damascus tried to arrest him. Besides being mentioned by Josephus, [164] his name is found in several contemporary inscriptions [165] and on numerous coins. [166]
The Conversion of Saint Paul, Luca Giordano, 1690, Museum of Fine Arts of Nancy The Conversion of Saint Paul, Caravaggio, 1600. The conversion of Paul the Apostle (also the Pauline conversion, Damascene conversion, Damascus Christophany and Paul's "road to Damascus" event) was, according to the New Testament, an event in the life of Saul/Paul the Apostle that led him to cease persecuting early ...
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In Galatians 1:19, Paul says he met with James, the "Lord's brother"; 1 Corinthians 15:3–8 refers to people to whom Jesus' had appeared, and who were Paul's contemporaries; and in 1 Thessalonians 2:14–16 Paul refers to the Jews "who both killed the Lord Jesus" and "drove out us" as the same people, indicating that the death of Jesus was ...