Twelve Conclusions From Reading Paul’s Epistles in Full
My reading of the epistles is first and foremost looking for bias — a critical job for any historian. Who was Paul? What did he believe? What biases and bigotries did he possess? Here are my opening conclusions and impressions from reading the epistles as a whole: 1) Paul genuinely had one or more visions that affected him profoundly. 2) Paul’s legalism from his time as a pharisee did not go away. He believes in the written “word of God” as he experienced it as a pharisee. 3
