[pgyanke]

What trick are you trying to play on me?! Paul indeed believed in the resurrection of the dead long after his name was changed from Saul. SO DO I AND ALL CHRISTIANS...and I never was a Pharisee.

No trick... just reading. You may not be a Pharisee but St Paul was a Pharisee before AND after his conversion.

"Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, "My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees. I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead." Acts 23:6

[Resettozero]

You may not be a Pharisee but St Paul was a Pharisee before AND after his conversion.

You just won't let up on this tricky point, whatever the importance of it is.

Paul was a Pharisee as I once was a Southern Baptist, but am no longer practicing as such. You offer no inkling of what point it makes when Saul clearly became Paul and began to preach Christ (new creation Paul)...not Pharisaical teachings of the LAW (old Saul of Tarsus)!

Paul's prior knowledge remained intact but his perspective had drastically and completely changed from his former beliefs of his keeping the Hebrew laws in order to gain acceptance with God.