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Acts is read as making Paul parallel Jesus in mob persecution, but Paul survives because Roman citizenship gives him rights Jesus lacked.
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Acts is read as making Paul parallel Jesus in mob persecution, but Paul survives because Roman citizenship gives him rights Jesus lacked.
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Paul's meeting with Roman Jewish leaders is suspicious because Acts depicts an accused criminal summoning local authorities as if he has power over them.
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Paul's story ends with wealth, mobility, and impunity in Rome: he can preach boldly and no one can touch him.
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Jiang says the authorship of Acts is unknown, but Acts was written by the same person who wrote Luke.
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Jiang dates Luke to roughly 80-90 CE, about 50-60 years after Jesus' death, and says Paul might still have been alive then.
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Acts is very pro-Paul and should be read as a story by people trying to clean up Paul's image.
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"Everyone's leaving me. That I have to go to Jerusalem and sort things out with James. Okay? So he goes to Jerusalem. And he..."
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"But there's a Jewish mob out there who want to kill him. Okay? So now, Paul says to the governor, let me talk to..."
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"This makes no sense. The Jews consider him a criminal. Yet, he has the power and authority to call all the major Jewish local..."
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"...how the Bible, this is how the book ends. Okay? The Acts of the Apostles, this is how it ends. He lived there two..."
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"And they leave him alone. And some even convert. Who is this guy, Paul? Alright? So that's the question. So, any questions so far?..."
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"...next week okay that's a great question like who wrote the Acts of Apostles all right so um we don't know who wrote the..."
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"...be alive at this time. What we also know is this Acts of the Apostles is very pro -Paul. So what's important to understand..."
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"Remember, the Bible started out as an apology for King David. So this is extremely sympathetic towards Paul. And again, what we're showing you..."
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"...their shadow fleet. But if that happened, that would be an act of war. But it's already happening. What? Really? Yes. It's already happening."
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"...see you starve. Alright, so the sons are demonstrating a last act of love for their father. And because the man, he has betrayed..."
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"...was quite dangerous for them to go to some sort of act of war between them conversation in the vsBOX box trillion right but..."
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"...not you would not blockade the Shavuot Hormuz because that's an act of war. What we're seeing is recalibration. So and and and basically..."
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