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Acts of the Apostles
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...of the Christian tradition. You will find this in the Acts of the Apostles. And rather than be angry, what Stephen does is pray..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...of the Christian tradition. You will find this in the Acts of the Apostles. And rather than be angry, what Stephen does is pray..."
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Jiang reads the Pilate story as a text that depicts Jewish priests forcing a reluctant Roman governor to execute Jesus.
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He argues this blame-shifting shows the Bible is not reliable as neutral history about who killed Jesus.
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Acts then introduces Paul as a persecutor of Christians whose conversion story is staged as a miracle on the Damascus road.
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"Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. And the soldiers wove a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and they..."
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"...me give you the context, okay? This is from the Acts of the Apostles and it's mainly about Paul and how he became a..."
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"Synagons and Damascus, so that if he found any who belonged to the way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem...."
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"...of the Christian tradition. You will find this in the Acts of the Apostles. And rather than be angry, what Stephen does is pray..."
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"...escort back to Rome, okay? And this is how the Acts of the Apostles ends. Okay, can you read, Alan?"
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"...I'm telling you comes from the Bible, a book called Acts of the Apostles, which is about what happens after Jesus dies. Okay. So,..."
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"...Paul goes back to Rome. And this is how the Acts of the Apostles ends. Okay? Let's read it together. Because the way it..."
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"...the Bible, this is how the book ends. Okay? The Acts of the Apostles, this is how it ends. He lived there two whole..."
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"...okay that's a great question like who wrote the Acts of Apostles all right so um we don't know who wrote the Acts of..."
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"...alive at this time. What we also know is this Acts of the Apostles is very pro -Paul. So what's important to understand is..."
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Jesus arrives as a poor prophet of the inner spark; Paul turns that spark into belief, obedience, ritual, hierarchy, and a machine that can outlive Rome.
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