Questions tagged [paul]
The Apostle Paul was one of the leaders of early Christianity, founder of many Christian congregations, and the author of several "letters" now found in the New Testament.
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To what does Paul refer when he said "Higher Powers" in Romans 13:1?
Would Paul's comment include all tyrannical governments without the people rising up against them?
Rom 13:1 (BLB) Let every soul be subject to the authorities being
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Why did Saul the Roman and also not being of the Sadducees sect express his disbelief in the resurrection? [closed]
Why do you people think it is unbelievable that God raises the dead? Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene. Acts 26:8-9 ...
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In what sense was Paul considered a false witness to Christ's resurrection?
Yea, and we are found false witnesses of God; because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ: whom he raised not up, if so be that the dead rise not. 1 Corinthians 15:15 KJV
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Did Saul the Roman know Jesus before he was killed? [closed]
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more. 2 Corinthians 5:16 KJV.
When could it have happened?
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Does Acts 21:20–26 tell us that it is OK for a Christian Jew to continue to observe Jewish rituals?
Does Acts 21:20–26 tell us that it is OK for a Christian Jew to continue to observe Jewish rituals?
Paul's letter to the Galatians tells us that Gentile Christians do not need to keep the Law of Moses ...
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Why was it Abagus who prophesied about Paul's arrest in Acts 21:11?
We are told that Paul stayed with Philip the evangelist who had four unmarried daughters who prophesied.
Acts 21:8-9 NLT
Then we went on to Caesarea and stayed at the home of Philip the Evangelist, ...
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What did Paul entrust God to guard?
2 Timothy 1:12 NASB
For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until ...
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Psalms 8:3-6 - has this been manipulated by Paul to imply it relates to Jesus?
Psalms speak in general terms about the Glory of God. How has Paul come to the conclusion that this relates to Jesus?
Psalm 8:3-6
3 When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon ...
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Is 2 Corinthians 3:14 contradictory to the OT?
Paul implies that the OT scriptures were veiled / not able to be understood. How can this be, that God would give guidance that they were not able to understand or comply with?
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What does Paul mean by 'one word' in Galatians 5:14?
Galatians 5:14 KJV
14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
What does one word mean in the above text?
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What kind of baptism was administered in Acts 16:33?
Acts 16:33 KJV
And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.
It is said the jailer together with his family were all baptized ...
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What is the wrath referred to in 1 Thessalonians 2:16?
For you, brothers and sisters, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea, for you suffered the same things from your own compatriots as they did from the Jews, who ...
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What is the accurate translation for 2 Thessalonians 3:3?
2 Thessalonians 3:3 NASB
But the Lord is faithful, and He will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.
Some translations, like the NASB include “evil one” (with “one” in italics) whereas other ...
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Why couldn't Agrippa and Festus just free Paul?
In Acts 26, Paul offered his defense before Festus and Agrippa. Afterwards, they both realize that he's innocent. From verses 30 - 32,
The king rose, and with him the governor and Bernice and those ...
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What is the logic in 2 Thessalonians 1:10?
2 Thessalonians 1:10
…when He comes to be glorified in His saints on that day, and to be marveled at among all who have believed — for our testimony to you was believed.
I’m a little confused by the ...
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In Paul's view: Will Habitual Sin Affect the Believer’s Eternal Salvation?
I want to understand what Paul believed about habitual sin (Biblical theology) according to 2 Thessalonians 3 about habitual sin, considering where Paul touches on the matter elsewhere in his first ...
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1 Cor 15:20 - Is the Resurrected Jesus Singular or Plural? Is He the Firstfruit or the Firstfruits
But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits[ἀπαρχή] of those who have fallen asleep.
-1 Corinthians 15:20
The ἀπαρχή here is in the singular form and seems to clearly be in ...
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Col 2:15 - Was the triumph over them "in him" or "in it"
Within what/who were the rulers and authorities triumphed over?
Here is an example of the two version showing different options:
English Standard Version
He disarmed the rulers and authorities and ...
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When did Jesus disarm rulers and authorities?
“When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.”
Colossians 2:15
What instance is Paul referring to here?
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Does Calling the Son "Theos" prove his Prexistence and his Deity?
John 1:18
No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God who is [ho ōn, i.e., “the One who is/being always”] in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him (emphasis added).
Romans 9:5
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What does Paul mean when he says "One Lord" in 1 Cor 8:6 [duplicate]
In the New Testament, it seems as though Paul normally refers to the Father as "ho theos" and the Son as "kurios" particularly when the Father and Jesus appear in the same verse or ...
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Why does Paul have a category of people being “perfect” in Philippians 3:15?
Philippians 3:15 NASB
Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you…
What does Paul mean here when ...
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What is Paul trying to lay hold of in Philippians 3:12?
Philippians 3:12 NASB
“Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus.”
What ...
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What is the resurrection of the dead that Paul wants to attain?
Philippians 3:11
…in order that I may attain to the ressurection of the dead.
What is the resurrection of the dead that Paul is hoping to attain through fellowship of Christ’s sufferings and ...
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Will gender differences persist in heaven? [duplicate]
Scientists have established that men and women think differently and reach decisions differently. They tend to have different interests and aptitudes. These distinctions go well beyond hair styles, ...
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How does Paul's condemnation and disdain for his personal secular, religious training not completely destroy modern religious degrees?
In 1 Corinthians 1-4 (and other places like Phil 3:8), Paul strongly condemns his own, personal religious tutelage, which was exemplary (Acts 22:3), in his efforts to preach the gospel to them. In ...
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What did Paul mean when he said 'I Have Done Nothing against the Customs of our Fathers?" Acts 28:17
The Book of Acts relates that when Paul was brought to Rome:
After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews; and
when they had gathered, he said to them, “Brethren, though I had ...
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1 Corinthians 5:4 - In what sense is Paul's spirit present in Corinth?
For though absent in body, I am present in spirit; and as if present,
I have already pronounced judgment on the one who did such a thing.
When you are assembled in the name of the Lord Jesus and my ...
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Does Acts 13:22 misquote 1 Samuel 13:14 regarding David as "a man after God's own heart?"
In Acts 13:22 Paul speaks at Antioch in Pisidia and declares:
When he [God] had removed him [Saul], he made David their king. In
his testimony about him he said, ‘I have found David, son of Jesse, to
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"Knowledge of God" in Romans 1:28
In Romans chapter 1, Paul provided an argument that everyone should be able to comprehend the existence of God from the creation.
20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his ...
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Is Paul talking about salvation in Galatians 5:21?
Galatians 5:21
…envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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What point is Paul making in Galatians 5:15?
Galatians 5:15 NASB
But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
What what point is Paul making here?
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Did Paul consider himself a Prophet? (1 Cor. 11:23) What was his general attitude toward Christian prophecy?
We know there were Christian prophets in the decades after the Resurrection, but did Paul consider himself to be one of them? What do we know about his understanding of Christian prophecy? In 1 Cor. ...
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Was Paul really still a Pharisee? Acts 23:6
This is not meant as a "yes or no" question. Rather I hope to learn what biblical texts/interpretations give us an insight into how Paul thought of himself in relation to pharisaic Judaism, ...
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How did Paul become like the Galatians in Galatian 4:12?
Galatians 4:12 NASB
I beg of you, brethren, become as I am, for I also have become as you are.
In what way did Paul become as the Galatians?
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Is Paul speaking to two different audiences in Galatians 4?
Is Paul speaking to two different audiences in Galatians 4:5 and 4:8? Is one group those who were “under the Law” (Jews) and another those who “did not know God” (Gentiles)? If so, is the rest of the ...
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Galatians 4:14. Paul says that Jesus is Angel of the Lord? [closed]
Galatians 4:14
though my condition put you to the test, you did not scorn or despise me, but welcomed me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
According to Bart Ehrman:
I had always simply read the ...
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What does Paul mean by “appeared” in 1 Corinthians 15?
In 1 Corinthians 15, we see the famous early Christian creed:
“and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at ...
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Acts 21 vs. Galatians and Corinthians. Did Paul live according to the Jewish Law? [duplicate]
Acts 21 seems to show Paul participating in a Temple ritual to demonstrate that he himself lived "in obedience to the law" and that there was no truth in reports that he told Jewish ...
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Did Paul call Timothy "my own son in the faith" or "a true child in the faith"?
In the KJV, 1 Timothy 1:2 says:
Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith...
In the English translation in The Interlinear Bible (called "King James II Version") (TIB), however, it says:
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Is Phillippians a compilation of letters?
While reading the Epistle to the Philipians in Wikipedia found the following remark
Starting in the 1960s, a general consensus has emerged among biblical scholars that Philippians was not written as ...
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Where was Paul when he wrote to the Philippians?
Different sources point to different locations, namely
Caesarea
Ephesus
Rome
Where was Paul when he wrote to the Philippians? If we cannot say where he was, what can we say about the location?
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1 Cor 15:24-28 Are translators translating the subjunctive? If not are we missing anything by leaving it untranslated?
So 1 Cor 15:24-28 has a surprising amount of verbs in the subjective, whose mood seems to be largely untranslated as indicated by the bold in the quote below.
1 Corinthians 15:24-28 24 Then comes the ...
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2 Tim 1:10 Did Christ abolish death or not?
2 Tim 1:10 says,
and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished [Strong's # g2673] death and brought life and immortality to light through the ...
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Was "δεισιδαιμονεστέρους" truly used in a positive sense in Greek writing, and if so, where? [As found in Acts 17:22]
In Acts 17:22, there is the question of whether we should understand the word "δεισιδαιμονεστέρους" as "very superstitious" or as "very religious".
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Is Paul making the "watchmaker argument" in Romans 1:18-25?
Romans 1:18-25 (ESV)
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19 For what can be known ...
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Where does this quote in Romans 2:24 come from?
KJV Romans 2 : 24
For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
Where does this quote come from?
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Paul's illness in Galatians 4:14
What kind of illness did Paul have? Why did Paul say his illness was a trial to the Galatians?
Galatians 4:14
and even though my illness was a trial to you, you did not treat me with contempt or ...
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Is 1 Corinthians 15:50 applicable to the pre-resurrection body of Christ?
1 Corinthians 15:50,53
50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
53 For this perishable body must put on the ...
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Please identify the grammatical subject(s) of Acts 20:11
Acts 20:7-11 reads (NKJV, emphasis added):
Now on the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul, ready to depart the next day, spoke to them and continued his ...
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