Paul (Saul) was one of Gods greatest examples of conversions. When you read Apostle Paul, you did not read Saul. You read works thru Paul by Gods hand. If you read it in it's context of then and now, you will see what God was trying to save us from, both individually, in marriage and as a society. As I said earlier...just turn on the TV. The world failed to listen.
You keep talking about TV.
What I'm saying is that the whole Saul to Paul, Stuttering Prince to Moses, Adulterous David to Great King etc are stories of great men.... but bad men too, with greatness pulled out of them. Paul was the Great Lion of God, yes, but he still was who he was.
There is nothing there for me to follow....there is no one I can empathize with.... I wish Esther had been a hooker first, or The Virgin Mary had been a kleptomaniac or Salome had started a dancing school or Eve had built a tree house with the Snake and told Adam to take a hike.
There is nothing there in the bible that I can say "Hey! That's about me! I get it! That's where I fit in!"
It's alien. While folks talk about the Bible being a roadmap, for some of us, it's a roadmap on Mars.
Instead, its the voices of angry men fussing about how bad we all are-- women are pulled out for special ridicule it seems. It's a mans book written by me about there male God and colored with their male biases.
With male heros who are 3D and females who are black and white.
Again, whatever Paul was trying to say, it came across as something cruel and uncaring.....quiet the opposite of what you're saying.