The Decree of God to Evangelize, Save, and Work Through the Apostle Paul (Acts 9:15-30)
Acts 9:15-30 reveals the story of the Apostle Paul's hearing of the Gospel, salvation, and follow-up:
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Acts 9:15-30 reveals the story of the Apostle Paul's hearing of the Gospel, salvation, and follow-up:
The Apostle Paul's authorship of Philemon, the shortest book in the New Testament, is uncontested by most of all New Testament Scholars. The only occasion of an argument against Pauline authorship was made by the Tubingen School in the nineteenth century and has since been dismissed as irrelevant and untrue.
The first letter to the Corinthian church has Paul addressing a plethora of issues. The church at Corinth, plagued by "division (1-4), sexual immorality (5-7), and disordered worship (8-10)," is having a difficult time shaking off Greco-Roman values. However, this is not the first time that Paul writes to the Corinthian church.
Paul begins the letter to the Romans with an introduction: "Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the Gospel of God" (Rom. 1:1). He immediately identifies himself as the letter's author and establishes genuine authority due to his apostleship and purpose as a minister of the Gospel.