beanpie wrote:Aineo wrote:beanpie wrote:Aineo wrote:No, the NT was written during the time Palestine was under Roman control, but Rome did not control the thoughts or theology of early Christians.
AND YOU CAN MAKE THIS STATEMENT BECAUSE?...
PAUL, AN EX-ROMAN SOLDIER WROTE 13 OF THE 27 BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT.
Can you prove that Paul was an ex-Roman soldier? BTW, posting in all caps is considered rude.
Although Gamaliel is depicted in the New Testament as lenient
towards Christians (Acts 5:33-39), his disciple
Saul was active in
the earliest persecutions of Christianity and attended the stoning of
St. Stephen the deacon and first Christian martyr (Acts 7:58).
Paul "persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to
prison both men and women" (Acts 22:4).
http://www.stpaulsirvine.org/html/saintpaul.html