Episode 26 (October 1, 2023), "A Jewish Paul" with Matthew Thiessen 

I KNEW IT! As soon as you said his last name I KNEW he was Canadian! The Theisans are all related to the Klausens and Reimers of Manitoba!

Very good program, with a most interesting topic and an engaging scholar.

Excellent episode. Looking forward to reading his books.

Awesome discussion, great insights. Great job jents! 👍

Great episode, thanks!

Love your guey workd, and love how you combine fun with facts.. Your chanel really deserves more views, mayby what could help, would set time stamps in the video description when you touch on what subject, doing more shorts too.. Wish you all the best, and if you ever need some good music, let me know, love to support something great like this..

Great insights.

another great episode // also love the Rug Rats

As a conservative evangelical, I really liked this interview with Matthew Thiessen. Very, very helpful. Thanks!! I think he sold me on getting the book.

I’m in the “Hate Paul” camp. I can say that now that I’ve deconverted; thought it a lot before then.

I lived in Hamilton, Ontario before.

This podcast made me think of how problematic paul was. And his ghost writer(s), were equally (probably more problematic) as paul.

Christians love to quote from the non-authentic epistles AND 1 cor 15.

With Jacov it is about the law And followers of "the way" were supposed to test newcomers to see if they were steadfast. Because, to Yacov, if a person was chattering about their faith, but they weren't demonstrating their jewishness they would not be long in their belief. And so the Jewish law was important, even for gentile, AND they needed to demonstrate their additional faith in their way by helping the orphans and widows.

I loathe Paul and sincerely doubt anything will ever change that.

Hmmm, listening to this podcast, it made me think: perhaps Paul indulges in the parade of Gentile horribles in Romans because his real rhetorical aim is to see how insulting the "people who say they are Jews," i.e., pagans, are willing to get. Paul is seeing how willing they are to insult their own mamas and them. And this is because they are setting themselves up as better than other former pagans following Jesus and causing them to stumble. The problem isn't really how sinful Gentiles are. The problem Paul wants to check is the idea that the faith in Jesus that led these former pagans to repentance and to turn to Israel's God is not enough. So he's doing everything he can to shake their tree.

Why the letter for Hebrews were called that way ? Why not "Jews" ? What's the real difference between this two terms ?

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I your opinion, was Paul a good writer for his time?