Have we found the body of St Paul?

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 30th June 2009 | A.N. Wilson

[April Lexington]

How could they be “discovered” if they’ve been lying under the tomb stone for 1950 years in plain sight? And, why are they digging up his grave? Leave the poor chap alone...

[April Lexington]

half mad

No... nothing to do with anti-Christian sentiment....

[April Lexington]

It was only three years ago that the tomb itself was discovered by Vatican archaeologists.

This is nuts. A church was built over his grave by Constantine! That are these grave robbers up to????

[April Lexington]

The fact that it was positioned exactly underneath the epigraph Paulo Apostolo Mart (Paul the Apostle and Martyr) at the base of the altar convinced them it was Paul's tomb.

Paging Captain Obvious, paging Captain Obvious...

[Frank_2001]

The writer of this piece is an anti-Catholic drooling imbecile.

[Ipberg]

Leave my bones alone!

[April Lexington]

You can tell from his letters that he is a driven, hyperactive genius of a man - more like a half-mad poet, I have often thought, than a clergyman.

"Religious" writer (a.k.a. Leftist...)"

[April Lexington]

I hear native Americans and Saints are a bit touchy about bones...

[Borges]

His writings have been described that way by literary scholars for a long time haven’t they?

[Cicero]

I’m familiar with A.N. Wilson’s earlier work on Oliver Cromwell and John Milton. The man is unfortunately an anti-Christian bigot. Clever, a prolific writer, but a bigot.

I don’t know why he keeps writing books on religious figures if he feels this way about them.

[grey_whiskers]

Or quoting Acts 26:24 --

"While Paul was saying this in his defense, Festus said in a loud voice, "Paul, you are out of your mind! Your great learning is driving you mad.""

Cheers!

[April Lexington]

Or quoting Acts 26:24 -- "While Paul was saying this in his defense, Festus said in a loud voice, "Paul, you are out of your mind! Your great learning is driving you mad."" Cheers!

A stumbling block to the Jews and FOOLISHNESS to the Gentiles. Festus was a Gentile and the whole Resurrection thing was foolishness to him... Of course he would see Paul as being mad... but he wasn't.

[naturalman1975]

Yes, well, that’s earlier work.

He’s recently, very publically reembraced Christianity and declared his atheism was an error.

[April Lexington]

<>literary scholars

Again, a stumbling block to the Jews and FOOLISHNESS to the Gentiles. They stoned him, beat him with rods, drive him out of town. He was abused, beaten, jailed, stoned and finally executed. Crazy for the Lord. And thank G-d for it!

[ColdSteelTalon]

St. Paul gave us the divinely inspired doctrine of salvation by faith and faith without works lest any man boast.

Nut job scholars want to call him crazy. Well Christ said the world would hate Christians because we belong to God.

They can count me in with Paul, and with the hated.

[C19fan]

Read the whole article. This is one of the concluding paragraphs:

And that is something which we all do share, whether we wish to or not. For this reason, the discovery of his bones is of immense historical significance. We have found the father of our civilisation.

I enjoy reading AN Wilson's columns in the Daily Mail and I have read his work The Victorians. Sometimes he will like to thrown some literary bombs, describing Paul as half-mad or basically insuitating Victoria and Prince Albert were both bastard children. But then he makes great overall points like the quote above or in The Victorians he basically defends them and appreciates them for who they were and their achievements.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I see you didn’t read the article. The author has followed a path from preparing for the Anglican Priesthood, to Catholicism, back to Anglicanism, to Atheism, and recently returned to religious beliefs. He has written biographies of both Jesus and Paul.

[April Lexington]

Me too. I'm with Paul.

By grace you are saved through faith in Jesus and not from works so no man can boast...

[naturalman1975]

I did read it all - unlike some people in this thread, I think.

I thought it was overall positive about Christianity, personally.