Paul's conversion

[Owlswing]

Again... You think that an educated answer to factual beliefs based on the Jewish faith and the fact that Paul was a Pharisee?

Maybe you should get yourself an education in the Jewish beliefs about the Messiah.

25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

Instead of answering out of blatant dislike for myself... how about using your brain and answering on the basis of the discussion contents. I personally find adult bullying and even blatant rudeness a sign of stupidity and ignorance rather than being big. It definitely isn't clever or setting a good example for the young people in the world. Shut up or make a sensible contribution.

Maybe you should get yourself an education on the difference between lecturing and discussing; and on the difference between what you know and what you like to think you know - you think you know everything there is to know about religious belief, you might except that you do not know the most important fact of them all - Religion is FAITH NOT FACT - you cannot prove one word of the contents of your Bible to be truth and until you learn this fact, every single word you post here trying to get everyone else to believe as you do is precisdeley and exactly the same as what come in great dollops out of a horse's backside!

Until you admit that your religious beliefs are, as are mine, FAITH NOT FACT and you  admit to the monstrous arrogance you display in every post  on the subject -  Shut up - when you do I'll talk to you again

[Robbie]

Of course it would have been obvious!

There's a saying that there is none so blind as those who cannot see. That's true of many of us in all sorts of situations, we even see it on here when someone (no doubt including occasionally you and me), can't see the bleedin' obvious! Especially if we're not thinking laterally that day. So, no, it wouldn't necessarily have been obvious.

[floo]

There's a saying that there is none so blind as those who cannot see. That's true of many of us in all sorts of situations, we even see it on here when someone (no doubt including occasionally you and me), can't see the bleedin' obvious! Especially if we're not thinking laterally that day. So, no, it wouldn't necessarily have been obvious.

Jesus must have been a useless messiah if only a small number of people actually believed him to be the one they were awaiting. The Jews are still expecting their messiah to turn up.

[Enki]

There's a saying that there is none so blind as those who cannot see. That's true of many of us in all sorts of situations, we even see it on here when someone (no doubt including occasionally you and me), can't see the bleedin' obvious! Especially if we're not thinking laterally that day. So, no, it wouldn't necessarily have been obvious.

Or it could be simply that Jesus didn't  fit the requirements of what most Jews understand those to be of their Messiah.

[floo]

Or it could be simply that Jesus didn't  fit the requirements of what most Jews understand those to be of their Messiah.

How very remiss of him!

[Dicky Underpants]

Or it could be simply that Jesus didn't  fit the requirements of what most Jews understand those to be of their Messiah.

A reading of the Dead Sea Scrolls evokes the response of the old Glasgwegian drunk on seeing Mike and Bernie Winters: "Och Jaysus, there's two of them!"
Yes, two messiahs, neither of which exhibit the characteristics which Christians claim make Jesus the ideal incumbent for the role.