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- From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
- Subject: Re: An Old Question For Robert A. Levene
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:46:24 GMT
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- In article <9211060339.AA12234@aplpy.jhuapl.edu> levene@aplpy.jhuapl.edu (Robert A. Levene) writes:
- >
- >Steve Warren writes:
- >
- >> Well, technically he was Saul when he was a Pharisee, but it was
- >> the same man. Do you deny that he was a Pharisee?
- >
- >Yes.
-
- You argue that he does not hold to Pharisean conventions, but Paul
- himself stated that he considered his education as a Pharisee to
- be dung. He once was a Pharisee, but he was most definitely not a
- Pharisee when he wrote the epistles. Demonstrating that he did not
- act like a Pharisee is simply proof that the change he was declaring
- in Yeshua was genuine and effective in himself. No one who trusts
- in Yeshua remains the same.
-
- As far as being a henchman for the High Priest, far from it; Saul
- was motivated by an intense zeal such that he was willing to use
- whatever authority existed in the land in order to have permission
- to root out the followers of the way. He was not acting on behalf
- of the Priests; he was acting on behalf of his own zeal and concern
- for the nation. If this happened to coincide with the desires of
- the Priesthood then so be it. He was not alone among the Pharisees
- of that day, although you may wish to distance the Pharisees from
- that outbreak of persecution. If other Pharisees participated in
- the same way then your argument is shown to be fallacious.
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