Only slightly joking there. He was Saul of Tarsus, a Jewish Pharisee and persecuted early Christians. He had a conversion and became an early Christian leader. He was one of the first to include gentiles in Christianity. Before it was mostly Jewish people well because Jesus was Jewish.
The law breaking joke is that in a vision he was given the ok to eat all foods not just kosher ones, ie he broke religious laws at the time
Edit: I misremembered, it was Peter who had the food vision not Paul. But I believe Peter also changed his name, yes he was Simon. Never thought about it much but man they changed their names a lot back then.
Key Bible verses are (iirc):
Acts 8.1, 9.1-31. And Romans, which is a letter to the Christians in Rome. And Corinthians, letters he wrote to Christians in Corinth.
So he was born 5 years after Jesus died, but saw Jesus die or something, and spent his whole life telling people how awesome Jesus was and to read these books he wrote…?
I understood it as he was alive while Jesus was alive but never met him. Being born in 5 AD, annon domino / year of our Lord, meant that Jesus would have been 5 yo went Saul/ Paul was born.
A.D., anno domini, meaning “in the year of our Lord”
Sometimes people think it means “after death,” but that would leave a 33-year gap between BC and AD dates.
Academia tends to use C.E. now, to mean “common era,” which is indexed to the same timeline but using non-religious language since a majority of people in the world are not Christian.
Only slightly joking there. He was Saul of Tarsus, a Jewish Pharisee and persecuted early Christians. He had a conversion and became an early Christian leader. He was one of the first to include gentiles in Christianity. Before it was mostly Jewish people well because Jesus was Jewish. The law breaking joke is that in a vision he was given the ok to eat all foods not just kosher ones, ie he broke religious laws at the time Edit: I misremembered, it was Peter who had the food vision not Paul. But I believe Peter also changed his name, yes he was Simon. Never thought about it much but man they changed their names a lot back then.
He changed his name to Paul after converting. wiki article if you are inclined to read up on your own https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_the_Apostle
Key Bible verses are (iirc): Acts 8.1, 9.1-31. And Romans, which is a letter to the Christians in Rome. And Corinthians, letters he wrote to Christians in Corinth.
So he was born 5 years after Jesus died, but saw Jesus die or something, and spent his whole life telling people how awesome Jesus was and to read these books he wrote…?
I understood it as he was alive while Jesus was alive but never met him. Being born in 5 AD, annon domino / year of our Lord, meant that Jesus would have been 5 yo went Saul/ Paul was born.
Ohhhh, is that what AD means? That makes a lot more sense to the rest of the article.
A.D., anno domini, meaning “in the year of our Lord”
Sometimes people think it means “after death,” but that would leave a 33-year gap between BC and AD dates.
Academia tends to use C.E. now, to mean “common era,” which is indexed to the same timeline but using non-religious language since a majority of people in the world are not Christian.
I definitely made that mistake
Simon you say ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7G1vWNoFz0