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Plunder the Philistines or Join them?
Benedict XVI used (N.B. Benedict XVI was the one whose meditations these were, yet he did not write them, nor did he actually read the aloud – for more details about this situation – see the letter from the Vatican, explaining – link) the following line in his “Good Friday” meditations: “Lead me from the…
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Sur-Response Regarding Paul the Apostle
The anonymous critic of Paul has provided a new attack on the apostle. The new attack is this: so why does he say it doesn’t matter to him what Peter James and John are? and why does he false accuse Peter of compelling Gentiles to live as Jews when Peter did not such thing but…
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Paul’s Conversion Chronology
One reader of this blog has recently provided some comments asking why it is that I believe Paul to be an apostle, and questioning the accounts of Paul’s conversion as being inconsistent. Let me first address Paul’s status as an apostle, and why I accept that. Afterward, I will provide a harmony of the Biblical…