The Apostle Paul Died A Martyr. Here’s The Evidence.
Did the Apostle Paul actually die as a martyr? Or is there a better explanation? This brief video is part of the grad class I teach at Talbot School of Theology (Biola University): “In Defense of the Resurrection.” To hear an in-depth case for the Resurrection, which includes responses to leading naturalistic objections, consider joining me at Talbot!
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When I hear the word: "TRADITION" when applied to The Gospel I think of "one" organization , her harlot daughters, and her disciples. In light of the many many false teaching of the so-called universal church I regard its conclusions and those of her disciples less than creditable.
Matthew 23 tells of saul/Pauls demise,, Jesus Condemn'd him to hell,,,
Why do you ignore the evidence and Warn'ns From Jesus that "Apostle" Paul was the Anti-Christ,, scroll through the comments,, the "Glory" given to saul, the "Praise" given to saul, saul IS Isaiah 14:14,,, he's the FALSE Apostle,,,
REPENT!
This is so sketchy. “Church tradition” is definitely not history
Remember Paul was a murderer, you can't make him a Saint.
Good video. I'm open but still unconvinced that Paul was put to death or beheaded.
2 Timothy: Paul could simply have been keenly aware that he was about to due to illness.
1 Clement: The trials that are mentioned there speak to Paul's endurance. Endurance doesn't necessarily point to martyrdom in this passage. Paul even spoke to endurance when he said that we have to finish the race.
1 Clement: "And so he was set free…" does not necessarily mean killed. He was set free from this world.
Strict exegesis does point to martyrdom or beheading.
But if you're searching for martyrdom and beheading, you'll find it. But, of course, that's eisegesis.
Hahaha What kind of baloney is this? The letter is not considered to be written by Paul and the fact that many believed it was is not a validation of what you’re trying to prove here.
You’re basically arguing that if your assertion of martyrdom wasn’t true then so many wouldn’t have believed the letter was written by Paul.
Sean, no wonder you get schooled in every debate. This must be t(e worst argument I have ever heard.
A fiction was so believable that it doesn’t matte that it was fiction?
Help me out here, Sean. At what point do any of your sources describe Paul's death? None points? Right. You already said that. So…there is zero evidence that Paul died as a martyr. Too bad you wasted all that PhD money.
It's gross how blatantly dishonest and manipulative you are. You should be ashamed of yourself, Sean.
Milk substance from back of head/ neck was what secretes from pineal gland / 3rd eye. The pineal gland is stimulated by light exposure. It’s science/biology. He was an enlighten person ever since he saw the bright light when running into Jesus on the road to Damascus. He said we enlightened directly by Christ.
Hé was a false apostle and the antichrist. This guy has nothing in common with Jesus and jesus' disciples. This guy never knew Jesus, never met him, never talk to him or eat with him.
Jesus and his companions were Jews…. YES MOST OF CHRISTIANS THINK THAT JESUS IS THE FOUNDER OF CHRISTIANITY. BUT HE'S NOT. JESUS WAS A JEW AND PRACTICES JUDAISM AND HE DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT CHRISTIANITY.
https://youtu.be/WkcjFHYIugY
There is NO PROOF of when, nor indeed how, Paul died!!
Paul is the founder of Christianity, not Jesus.
Paul, Josephus, or Simon Magus,
carried on through the Roman Catholic Church.
Read George Lyttelton’s book on Paul’s conversion.
Paul died from drugs overdose in a party with Caesar, the white thing coming out of his neck was cocaine with beer
He is 13 and to me my humble opinion besides Christ his testimony the most important in the bible
What is I Clement?
I never understand why Christians, even with the best of intentions, argue from the possibility that scripture may not be fully inspired or may have parts that were added later… to me it’s like a knight going into a fight to the death without his helmet and saying, “aim here” to his opponent…
This is the best you got? That persecution fetish is really looking for confirmation my friend.
Good stuff. You can count me in the group of former believers who still finds it more likely than not that Paul genuinely believed he had an experience of Jesus, and that experience convinced him to spend the rest of his life dedicated to spreading his interpretation of what Jesus life and death meant.
Now as for his experience, I must still admit that it sounds no more compelling then very similar sounding experiences of Allah, Yaweh, Vishnu, and other often undefined gods/spirts I've seen other humans earnestly express they had in which the particular god they attributed the experience to advised them all other religions, including Christianity, were false, and in some cases they believed their god called them to die for Him/Her, and in the most tragic cases they were willing to do so. In fact I seem to recall one Jewish individual expressing that Yaweh had specifically warned them that Paul had actually experienced a deceitful spirt, attempting to trick and manipulate him into not only idol worship, worshipping a man as a god rather then god Himself, but to drag down as many other humans as possible through his testimony into said idolatry, and as a result even if I did have experiences that convinced me that the super natural realm existed, I couldn't say that person's experience of it was any more or less reliable then Paul's.
All of which is to say, that it seems probable to me that Paul was genuinely willing to be a Martyr for his beliefs doesn't actually suggest to me that what he believed was more likely true then what those who sacrificed themselves for their god on 9/11 believed, but purely from a historical investigation this lecture was still interesting and I appreciate your time putting this together and sharing it.
Prof Sean McDowell, fascinating video. Good research & articulation. You remind me of your dad (Evidence, More Evidence, The New Evidence). I was shaped by these books in late 1974, shortly after Jesus Christ came into my life. In my retirement, since January 2021, I have begun a new introductory series of videos on the Gospels targeting the younger generations on my YouTube Channel in my own name. Lord bless you Dr. McDowell. 🎚📖
Where does scripture say that Peter died in Rome??
@Dr. Sean McDowell You might want to consider actually doing a video focusing on the Pauline authorship issue of the Pastoral Letters, giving the argument for the traditional view. There isn't much on YouTube that deals with this.