8/31/2023 0 Comments False witness bible![]() One the most pertinent texts about not bearing false witness to the resurrection of Jesus is the following: 1:13-15, Paul uses terms such as “persecute” and “destroy” to describe his efforts to put an end to the spread of the early faith. The language Paul uses in his pre-revelatory encounter with the risen Lord shows how much how antagonistic he was towards the messianic movement. Paul was an active persecutor of the early Christian movement: see Marion Soard’s The Apostle Paul: An Introduction to his Writings and Teaching (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1987), 10-11. He says “ I am a Jew” (Acts 22 3) “I am a Pharisee” (Acts 23:6), and “I am a prisoner for the sake of the hope of Israel” (Acts 28:20). In many places, Paul discusses his Jewish identity. Paul was probably, as an adult, a resident of Damascus.Ĩ. Hence, Paul’s exegesis of the Old Testament shows evidence of his rabbinic training.ħ. Since Paul’s letters show familiarity with rabbinic methods for interpretation of Scripture and popular Hellenistic philosophy to a degree, this makes it likely that he received a formal education in both areas. ![]() ![]() The House of Hillel was a school of Jewish law and thought that was very well known in the 1st century B.C.E. Paul studied under the famous teacher Gamaliel (Acts 22: 3), the grandson of Hillel. Hillel is known as the Academy of Hillel, founded by a Jewish sage called Hillel the Elder. He came from a family of Pharisees of the tribe of Benjamin and was named for the tribe’s most illustrious member, King Saul.ĥ. Paul was born in Tarsus, a city in Southwestern Asia Minor.Ĥ. Remember, having two names was not uncommon for Jews who lived outside Palestine in the first century.ģ. From Paul’s Letters, we can gather that:ġ. The rest of the letters yield very little about the life of Paul. The undisputed letters of Paul that can be used to give us an understanding about who he was and what his mission was are in Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Philippians, 1 Thessalonians, and Philemon. Thus, for the historian, Christianity begins after the death of Jesus, not with the resurrection itself, but with the belief in the resurrection” -Bart Ehrman, The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, (Third Edition New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 276.Įven New Testament scholar Dale Allison even says that Paul converted from a persecutor of the church to one of its greatest promoters because of an experience he perceived was of the risen Jesus appearing to him.–see Dale Allison, Resurrecting Jesus: The Earliest Christian Tradition and Its Interpreters (New York: T&T Clark, 2005), 263-268. We know some of these believers by name one of them, the apostle Paul, claims quite plainly to have seen Jesus alive after his death. It is a historical fact that some of Jesus’ followers came to believe that he had been raised from the dead soon after his execution. Bart Ehrman writes the following regarding Paul’s experience: Given Paul’s letters are the earliest records we have for Jesus, he is a very important component to the birth of the early Jesus movement. 20 And the rest g shall hear and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you. ![]() So you shall purge the evil 1 from your midst. 18 The judges shall e inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, 19 f then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. ġ8 He said to him, “ Which ones ? ” And Jesus said, m “ You shall not murder, You shall not commit adultery, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness ,ġ6 If c a malicious witness arises to accuse a person of wrongdoing, 17 then both parties to the dispute shall appear before the L ord, d before the priests and the judges who are in office in those days. Is like a war club, or i a sword, or a sharp arrow. Ģ8 f Be not a witness against your neighbor without cause ,ġ8 A man who h bears false witness against his neighbor īut the word of a man who hears will endure. ĩ g A false witness will not go unpunished ,Īnd he who h breathes out lies will perish. ĥ g A false witness will not go unpunished ,Īnd he who h breathes out lies will not escape. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a e malicious witness. 23 d “ You shall not spread a false report. ![]()
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