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    I, Paul
    I, Paul
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    I, Paul

    By Edwin Walhout

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    What would the Apostle Paul tell us if he could talk to us today from his prison in Rome? What would he say about his life before he became Christian? about explaining the gospel to people who never heard of Adam or Moses? about why he was put in prison? Read here, in first-person style, what this famous missionary says about these and other adventures.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEdwin Walhout
    Release dateAug 24, 2010
    ISBN9781452354439
    I, Paul
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    Edwin Walhout

    I am a retired minister of the Christian Reformed Church, living in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Being retired from professional life, I am now free to explore theology without the constraints of ecclesiastical loyalties. You will be challenged by the ebooks I am supplying on Smashwords.

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      I, Paul - Edwin Walhout

      I, Paul

      First-Person Transcriptions From The New Testament Apostle

      by Edwin Walhout

      Published by Edwin Walhout

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 Edwin Walhout

      Cover design by Amy Cole (amy.cole@comcast.com)

      See Smashwords.com for additional titles by this author.

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      1 A Boy in Tarsus

      2 A Student Rabbi in Jerusalem

      3 A Persecutor of Christians

      4 Converted

      5 Time to Think

      6 Thoughtful in Tarsus

      7 Assisting in Antioch

      8 Cyprus and Galatia

      9 Lystra

      10 The Jerusalem Conference

      11 A Letter to Galatia

      12 Philippi

      13 Athens and Corinth

      14 A Letter to Thessalonica

      15 Another Letter to Thessalonica

      16 Ephesus

      17 A Letter to Rome

      18 Prison

      19 Letters from Rome

      Time Travel Plans

      The West Michigan Institute for Time Travel has sent me on numerous trips into the past. I have visited and interviewed many Old Testament people, and now I am reporting on my first visit to a New Testament person: the apostle Paul.

      We had a serious problem figuring out when to visit him – that is, when in his life. Nobody knows what happened to Paul when he got older. There are rumors he went to Spain, but who knows? So we finally decided to contact him when he was in Rome as a prisoner waiting for trial before Caesar. I managed to find temporary living quarters in Rome, not far from the apartment where Paul is staying.

      * * * * *

      1 A Boy in Tarsus

      Paul is a prisoner, but in a comfortable room, guarded by a Roman soldier. I began my visit by asking Paul to tell about his childhood years in Tarsus. He was born and raised in the city of Tarsus in what is now southeastern Turkey, on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.

      (Based on Acts 22:3-5)

      You ask me what life was like years ago in Tarsus as I was growing up. We were different from the other people in the city. I mean, we were Jews. We had our own religion, and we knew the religion of the other people was not good. But we got along all right with the other folk – we called them Gentiles. I knew early on that we were different and that other people thought we were odd. When I was a boy I was not allowed even to play with Gentile boys.

      Some of our men did dress differently from the other people, but my parents were not strict about that. My father, of course, wore his little hat in synagogue, and I did too when I was old enough. And we did the things we were supposed to do on sabbath and on the holy days. On sabbath we used only the special dishes and knives and spoons as we kept the day holy. My father would never do anything that resembled work on that day. We were Pharisees, and quite proud of it. Pharisees believed in God’s Law and were very careful to obey it, especially Passover and sabbath observance and circumcision and kosher food.

      My father taught me to read Hebrew when I was little, and I became a good reader. I read as many of our Jewish books as I could. When I was a boy I liked best the stories about Moses, and I learned a lot about how God works from reading them. But I also learned to read and to talk our common ordinary everyday language, Greek.

      As I grew older my parents did send me to a school for a few years where I learned how to get along with boys from the city. They would sometimes tease me because I

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