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Title: Paul of Tarsus: The Man, The Teacher, and The Apostle


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Paul of Tarsus The Man, The Teacher, and The
Apostle
  • John Mayo
  • Theology II
  • Kenrick-Glennon Seminary

2
Where are we Going?
  • The Man- Who was St. Paul
  • The Teacher- What did he teach?
  • The Apostle- What did he write?

Another St. Paul From http//www.twin-cities.com
/pics/st-paul.jpg
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St. Paul- The Early Years
  • Paul was born sometime in the first decade AD
  • A Jew by birth, Paul traced his lineage to
    Benjamin.
  • In Acts, Luke presents Paul as being born in
    Tarsus, which was a Greek town, but Paul never
    says in his letters where he was born.

The City Gate of Tarsus, Dating to Paul From
http//www.livingtravel.com/europe/turkey/turkey_4
.htm
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The Names of Paul
  • Saul
  • Probably his Hebrew name
  • This means Asked of God or Asked of Yahweh
  • Name of Israels first King (1 Sam. 1021).
  • Paul
  • A Roman name from his birth
  • No one knows how he got this name, since it is of
    a well to do Roman family.
  • Name means small or little
  • Very common to have two names one Jewish and
    another Gentile name.

5
Paul, the Early Years (Concluded)
  • As we have seen, Paul was both a Jewish Greek
  • He appears to have received a classical Greek
    education.
  • Paul also says he studied under Gamaliel I, a
    great teacher, in Jerusalem.

Gamaliel I
From http//www.7eevangile.com/page88.htm
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Paul, Before Conversion
  • Paul tells us that he was a Pharisee before his
    conversion.
  • Teachers of the Law.
  • Clashed many times with Jesus over ritual.
  • Was present at the stoning of St. Stephen (Acts
    81)
  • Received letters to arrest followers of The Way
    in Damascus

Stoning of St. Stephen, by Unknown From
http//www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum/collect
ions/italpaint/1988_29.html
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Pauls Conversion
  • 3 Accounts (Acts 93-30, 226-21, and 2612-18)
  • What is Common
  • Light
  • Voice from the sky
  • What is Uncommon
  • Who sees the light
  • Who hears the voice
  • Blindness
  • Horse is not mentioned
  • Bottom Line Paul had a life-changing experience

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Paul, the Seminarian?!
  • Paul was not an immediate hit.
  • Paul began to preach to the Jews in Damascus and
    had to fled
  • He then fled to Arabia to pray and meditate
  • After this, goes to Jerusalem for 15 days, but
    never sees Peter or is truly accepted.
  • He then has to escape again and ends up back in
    Tarsus for 5-6 years, before Barnabas comes to
    get him to come to Antioch and preach to the
    Church there.

St. Paul by El Greco Fromhttp//en.wikipedia.org/
wiki/ImageStPaul_ElGreco.jpg
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Paul, the Teacher
  • Pauls Central Point
  • For since in the wisdom of God the world did not
    come to know God through wisdom, it was the will
    of God through the foolishness of the
    proclamation to save those who have faith. For
    Jews demand signs and Greeks look for wisdom, but
    we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block
    to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles, but to those
    who are called, Jews and Greeks alike, Christ the
    power of God and the wisdom of God. For the
    foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom,
    and the weakness of God is stronger than human
    strength. (1 Cor. 121-25)
  • Pauls preaching is centered on the cross and
    faith in Christs death and resurrection.

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Paul, the Teacher (2)
  • Paul sees that after Adams sin, all humans, both
    Jews and Greeks are under the sway of sin.
  • God gives Moses the Law (Ten Commandments) as a
    way of life to shepherd us until the coming of
    Christ.
  • God fully tells man how to live rightly, but man
    cannot because of the reign of sin.
  • This shows us how much we are dependant on God
    and need Him to save us.

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Paul, the Teacher (3)
  • God, in the fullness of time, sends His son to
    redeem us.
  • Through Christ, we are freed from the reign of
    sin.
  • This freedom comes through faith in Christ
    through the word of the gospel.
  • This faith in the gospel is not the same as in a
    history book, but is a full acceptance, as one
    fully accepts a friend.

Fromhttp//www.fwepiscopal.org/graphics/farrercro
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Paul, the Teacher (4)
  • Through faith, we are given grace, which makes us
    sons and daughters of the Father.
  • This is a free gift of God, and thus we cannot
    boast of it selfishly.
  • God also gives us the gift of Love.
  • This is to be in all of our actions.
  • This unites all believers in a communion of love.
  • This is done by the Holy Spirit.

13
Paul and Martin Luther
  • Martin Luther read a great deal of St. Paul, and
    is partially why Paul gets a bad hearing by many.
  • However, as we have seen, Paul does not teach
    that we are saved by faith alone we need to
    respond to Gods grace and live in love.
  • Martin Luther got his idea by adding alone to
    Romans 328
  • NAB For we consider that a person is justified
    by faith apart from works of the law.
  • Martin Luther defended this change by saying that
    Paul would have said this himself.

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Paul, the Apostle
  • Now that we know St. Paul better, lets discuss
  • Be subordinate to one another out of reverence
    for Christ. Wives should be subordinate to their
    husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is head
    of his wife just as Christ is head of the church,
    he himself the savior of the body. As the church
    is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be
    subordinate to their husbands in everything.
    Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved
    the church and handed himself over for her to
    sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water
    with the word, that he might present to himself
    the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle
    or any such thing, that she might be holy and
    without blemish. So (also) husbands should love
    their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his
    wife loves himself. (Eph. 522-28).

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Benedict XVI on Paul (10/25/06)
  • Paul was a devout follower of the law, whose
    initial hostility to the Gospel suddenly melted
    when he encountered the risen Lord on the road to
    Damascus. His own accounts of this dramatic
    conversion speak not only about his vision of
    Jesus, but also his call to be an apostle. From
    that moment on, Paul's life was completely
    dedicated to the service of Christ. From Paul we
    learn to make Christ the center of our lives and
    to see all things in the light of God's
    universal, reconciling love.
  • Fromhttp//www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml
    ?sid97167

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