The story is not specific to such a low level of detail and we could speculate till doomsday.
However the moment of truth, when it came, would have come when Paul understood Jesus as a quintessentially kind person that he had been madly persecuting because their manners were fundamentally incompatible. It was the duh, I could have had a V8 moment.
This kind of rejection still goes on in non Christian Jewish circles. What do you mean all our work, slaving over the scriptures and the traditions, to pin down God is in vain? That this character Jesus did everything necessary on our behalf and that God isn’t as simple as we made Him out to be?
Pride cannot coexist with love, is the bottom line. Love needs humility.
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Humility takes different forms. To be a truly humble person, you can’t honestly stand up for your own beliefs. I’m not talking about core Christian beliefs, but I am talking about core fundamental political beliefs.
If your reasoning tells you what must be done on illegal immigration, is it necessary to have a humble spirit? No. You know what needs to be done and you drive it through.
Rush used to talk about compromise. If you’re right, what does compromise accomplish. It only causes you to accept something less than right.
Can a humble man walk into a meeting with many different opinions and walk out with the plan he walked in with? I’m not convinced of that.
There are times when humble is the last thing called for.