CHRISTIANITY IS NOT the same religion as Scripture. Far from it. The early church fathers have already established that fact. Though, to be fair, if we’re dealing with the 66-book Canon, then thirteen of the epistles attributed to Sha’ul of Tarsus are most certainly...
SCHOLARS HAVE long sought to find traces of the stoic soul in Sha’ul. This may be partly due to the fact that his own home city of Tarsus was a hotbed for stoicism. That being said, some have claimed to discover one. But that in and of itself is hardly the issue here,...
Sha’ul. She’ol. A person and a place. What’s the difference? Aside from the fact that one leads to the other—none, whatsoever. In ancient Hebrew, they were the exact same word. שְׁאוֹל is She’ol. שָׁאוּל is Sha’ul. The second word presented here, Sha'ul, has a hardly...
WE DO NOT KNOW precisely when Yehudah, the second documented brother of Yahshua Messiah, contributed his own rebuttal against the ministry of Sha’ul. Knowing what we do of Sha’ul’s contempt for the Yerushalayim group, and the Christians of Antioch who arose as...
STRANGE INDEED. If the thirteenth apostle is to be believed, then Ya’aqob, Kepha, and Yohanan sent Sha’ul and Barnaba to the nations in order that they might remain with the circumcised. This—in spite of the great commission. I do not lie. Then why does tradition hold...
“Elohim has shown me that I should not call any man common or unclean.” Acts 10:28 IN REALITY, SHA’UL DID not get along with the actual Apostles. His biographer had good reason to gloss right over the specifics of their dispute in hopes of smoothing things...
And Yahshua said to them, “Truly, I say to you, when the Son of Adam sits on the throne of His esteem, you who have followed Me in the rebirth, shall also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Yisrae’el.” Mattithyahu 19:28 ALAS, THE ROPE AND THE BRANCH...