(October 30, 2015 at 9:56 am)Irrational Wrote:1.He 'may' have been telling the truth. (After all anyone who saw him would have been able to see the scars and his beaten/broken body. it not like they had plastic surgery)(October 30, 2015 at 9:53 am)Drich Wrote: Again death was simply the end result. Paul spent a large part of his ministry in jail, recovering from beatings, stonings, public caning, ect.
http://members.tripod.com/apostle_india/id2.html I cant vet the website but the content seems to be a cut and paste from the bible
1. He may have exaggerated.
2. He may have been a masochist.
2.His beatings were from not yeilding to govermental pressure to stop teaching christianity. He even tried to use his status as a citizen of rome to stave off some of the punishments he endured. a masochist would have sought out the beatings not try and avoid them.
