[maine-iac7]

I think God chooses is own vessel. If Paul were no available, somebody else would have been.

He did.

He chose Jesus>

Jesus chose - and taught - his Disciples and chose the 12 Apostles = lived with them, taught them for 3 years.

And they set up a set format for adding a new Apostle after one was killed. It did not include a 'blinding light on a road somewhere and 'wham' - an Apostle - who had never met Jesus, never met with the Apostles, spent ten years, as a Roman commander hunting down and killing every Christian he could = who, after proclaiming himself an Apostle, deigned to even go to Jerusalem and meet with the leaders of the church - and it was JAMES THE JUST, Blood brother of Jesus that was the head of followers, not Peter - etc etc - there's a LOT of information -

But quite simply, as to the blinding light (convenient as Paul then didn't need to describe what Jesus, whom he's never met, looked like = etc) - Jesus didn't work that way.

To say that Paul was needed to basically save Christianity - is to say Jesus failed.

The main difference between Jesus's and Paul's teaching - Paul, in bed with the Romans, helped set up the church with the power, pomp & circumstances - and money, structure. NOT wast Jesus taught.

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[SeekAndFind]

RE: Paul, in bed with the Romans, helped set up the church with the power, pomp & circumstances

How did he do that when he himself was persecuted, jailed and possibly executed by the Romans?

[roamer_1]

The main difference between Jesus's and Paul's teaching - Paul, in bed with the Romans, helped set up the church with the power, pomp & circumstances - and money, structure. NOT wast Jesus taught.

Yes, Paul taught as Yeshua - what people have done with what he taught is not his fault.

Read it again - thinking of software code, and understand what a logic bomb is.

[dsc]

“But quite simply, as to the blinding light - Jesus didn’t work that way.”

Not only did He work that way then, He still works that way today, and did for all the centuries in between.

“The main difference between Jesus’s and Paul’s teaching - Paul, in bed with the Romans, helped set up the church with the power, pomp & circumstances”

Wow. You know, sometimes there is an excuse for getting something wrong, but there is *no* excuse for that one.

Libraries are full of history books. I would recommend you investigate that further.