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Podcast: Wrestling with Theology
Episode: Moment of Medittation: Who Is Paul?
Description: As we begin a study of St. Paul's epistle to the
churches in Galatia, we begin with the question: Who is Paul?
Paul was raised in Tarsus in Cilicia. He was raised in
a strict Jewish home. He went to Jerusalem as a youth to study at the feet of Gamaliel,
the greatest rabbi among the Pharisees.
As a strict Pharisee, Paul persecuted the Way (what
Christians were originally called) and imprisoned many. He makes his first
appearance in the Bible as the stands by while the Sanhedrin stones St. Stephen
to death (Acts 7:58; 8:1). He...