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I also very much enjoy your insights, dear kosta50. And I agree that you and I can part ways agreeing to disagree

Thank you, AG. Thank you also for the post on the Essenes. Most informative, yet don't miss the opening line "they are postulated to be..." As for Paul's 3 years, he doesn't say what he was doing for those 3 years. the book of Acts contradicts his claim that he went to Arabia before going to Jerusalem.

I stand corrected on the reasons the Jews don't write God but G-d. Thank you.

Thanks for everything. May God bless you.

Most informative, yet don't miss the opening line "they are postulated to be..."

Likewise, don't miss the last paragraph: "evidence is accepted by the majority of scholars as conclusive." Though, of a Truth, I am not one to put much weight in the concept of "strength in numbers." LOL!

As for Paul's 3 years, he doesn't say what he was doing for those 3 years. the book of Acts contradicts his claim that he went to Arabia before going to Jerusalem.

It is not unusual for us to have such differences in understanding, dear kosta50. But in the end we are looking at the same diamond, the same Light. So I never dismiss your testimony out-of-hand.

For me, Galatians 1:11-20 is a whole testimony, from "But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man" through "Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God, I lie not" and thus I do read it as Paul's testimony that he spent 3 years in something of a "sabbatical" wherein the Holy Spirit directly revealed the Gospel of Jesus Christ to him.

May God ever bless you, dear kosta50! I look forward to your future posts here or elsewhere on the forum - and especially, to meeting you "on the other side" if not in this life first.