Paul's Trial Broke His Heart, "No Man Stood for Me."
The priest brought false charges:
“...inciting rebellions against the Roman government...trying to defile the Temple.” (Acts 24:5,6)
Paul would have been free if the ‘Just’ and elders had said: 'Paul was taking vows at our request. He’s innocent.'
Paul wouldn’t have blamed them if they’d been in danger. If their suggestion of vows was a trick to identify him to the high priest, then their desertion at his trial and the years of abandonment, removed any doubt in Paul’s mind as he concluded: “...the time of my departure is at hand.” (2 Tim. 4:6)
“At my first answer [trial], no man stood with me...I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.” (2 Tim. 4:16)
This was the prayer that Paul heard Stephen pray for him. Did Paul feel the same crime had been done?
Jesus was betrayed to the high priest by a kiss.
With Paul, it was a suggestion, and he was deserted like David deserted Bath-sheba’s husband.
The priest had removed a common thorn. It looks like the Just wrongly judged that Paul was against God’s laws and had gotten what he deserved.
Paul asked God to forgive the ones that deserted him, those Life Jackets who called him, “dear brother”.
Did Life Jackets further persuade Gentiles to obey laws by saying Paul was 'in line with our thinking' by his taking vows when arrested?
We owe our ancestors who were faithful to the teachings of Jesus as Paul explained. We know Paul’s opinions were not as James’s traditions, but “My message comes from no less a person than Jesus Christ himself, who told me what to say.” (Gal. 1:12)
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk onthe well-trodden path always throw stones at those who areshowing a new road.”
Paul’s new road of “I could never findGod’s favor by...obeying laws [but] by believing in Christ” (Gal.2:19), wasn’t the path of Jewish Christians.
They thought Jesus backed their laws for going to heaven, and their sins were removed by God’s law on a scapegoat.
Catholics eliminated the goat but still require people to pay money to the church for their sins to be removed.
“...inciting rebellions against the Roman government...trying to defile the Temple.” (Acts 24:5,6)
Paul would have been free if the ‘Just’ and elders had said: 'Paul was taking vows at our request. He’s innocent.'
Paul wouldn’t have blamed them if they’d been in danger. If their suggestion of vows was a trick to identify him to the high priest, then their desertion at his trial and the years of abandonment, removed any doubt in Paul’s mind as he concluded: “...the time of my departure is at hand.” (2 Tim. 4:6)
“At my first answer [trial], no man stood with me...I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.” (2 Tim. 4:16)
This was the prayer that Paul heard Stephen pray for him. Did Paul feel the same crime had been done?
Jesus was betrayed to the high priest by a kiss.
With Paul, it was a suggestion, and he was deserted like David deserted Bath-sheba’s husband.
The priest had removed a common thorn. It looks like the Just wrongly judged that Paul was against God’s laws and had gotten what he deserved.
Paul asked God to forgive the ones that deserted him, those Life Jackets who called him, “dear brother”.
Did Life Jackets further persuade Gentiles to obey laws by saying Paul was 'in line with our thinking' by his taking vows when arrested?
We owe our ancestors who were faithful to the teachings of Jesus as Paul explained. We know Paul’s opinions were not as James’s traditions, but “My message comes from no less a person than Jesus Christ himself, who told me what to say.” (Gal. 1:12)
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk onthe well-trodden path always throw stones at those who areshowing a new road.”
Paul’s new road of “I could never findGod’s favor by...obeying laws [but] by believing in Christ” (Gal.2:19), wasn’t the path of Jewish Christians.
They thought Jesus backed their laws for going to heaven, and their sins were removed by God’s law on a scapegoat.
Catholics eliminated the goat but still require people to pay money to the church for their sins to be removed.
posted by Rex Ray at Saturday, June 17, 2006
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