Feast Day of St. Barnabas

ExecutedToday.com ^ | June 11, 2017 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

June 11 is the feast date of St. Barnabas, St. Paul‘s New Testament wingman.

A Cypriot Jew named Joseph, “Barnabas” (“Son of Encouragement”) was so christened in the fourth chapter of the New Testament’s Acts of the Apostles because upon his conversion he sold his land for a donative to the Galileans.

After that, Barnabas reappears throughout Acts as one of the most important of the early Christian missionaries, usually joining St. Paul — whom Barnabas himself introduced to the Christians after Paul got religion — as emissary to the non-Jews, for which purpose the Holy Spirit itself demanded him by name. (Acts 13:2: “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”)

They’re frequently paired thereafter in the narrative although it’s invariably Saint Paul’s honeyed tongue that does the confounding before the companions flee this city or that ahead of a furious mob.* Evidently the Holy Spirit’s labor policies could have used some updating: Barnabas also features in a whinge by Paul in 1 Corinthians 9 against the excess sacrifices the Jesus sect is exacting from its most successful envoys, who get no wages and no sex and (so it seems) have to hustle side jobs to keep up their proselytizing.....

[daniel1212]

The author ("Headsman") of this is reads like another arrogant atheist:

The Holy Spirit itself demanded him by name. (Acts 13:2: “Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”)

The Greek word translated by Headsman as "Demanded" is a common one the occurs 93 times in the NT and basically means "said," but "Demanded" conveys a concept of God as an unbiblical unfeeling dictator, which atheists like to portray God as. And it is actually the Lord Jesus whose word the Spirit is conveying. (John 14:16,26; 15:26; 16:7-15)

it’s invariably Saint Paul’s honeyed tongue that does the confounding before the companions flee this city or that ahead of a furious mob

Saint Paul’s "honeyed" [sweet, pleasing to the ear] tongue? That is hardly descriptive of passionate Paul's words.

Evidently the Holy Spirit’s labor policies could have used some updating: Barnabas also features in a whinge [peevish complaint] by Paul in 1 Corinthians 9 against the excess sacrifices the Jesus sect is exacting from its most successful envoys, who get no wages and no sex and (so it seems) have to hustle side jobs to keep up their proselytizing.....

This is plainly arrogant, and ignorant. Like a father seeking to talk some sense into a wayward child, Paul is seeking to bring the Corinthians to their senses as they were seduced by false apostles, who likely attacked Paul. Thus he is compelled by love for them to resort to reminding them of his credentials, and labor for them. In this context he states that the only apostles who forsook even wives were Paul and Barnabas.