St. Paul vs. The Apostle Paul...?

[TarkanAttila]

Tonight I was talking to a Protestant about Catholicism. I began by telling him that Scripture only began being written circa 50 AD, beginning with (and I quote) Saint Paul’s Letter to the Thessalonians.

He interrupted me and asked “Do you mean ‘St. Paul’? Or Paul the Apostle?”

He went on to explain that some “St. Paul” guy who worked for “The Roman Church” “wrote about Christianity”, while Christ chose Paul to be the “thirteenth apostle” on the road to Damascus (I assume he meant Paul’s vision of Christ and his subsequent becoming a Christian), thus this “Paul the Apostle”. He said he learned this from The History Channel.

Anyone else heard about this kooky notion?

Prayers for this man; he has a mouth like the Energizer Bunny. It just keeps going and going and going and going…

 

[StephenEstes]

Tonight I was talking to a Protestant about Catholicism. I began by telling him that Scripture only began being written circa 50 AD, beginning with (and I quote) Saint Paul’s Letter to the Thessalonians.

He interrupted me and asked “Do you mean ‘St. Paul’? Or Paul the Apostle?”

He went on to explain that some “St. Paul” guy who worked for “The Roman Church” “wrote about Christianity”, while Christ chose Paul to be the “thirteenth apostle” on the road to Damascus (I assume he meant Paul’s vision of Christ and his subsequent becoming a Christian), thus this “Paul the Apostle”. He said he learned this from The History Channel.

Anyone else heard about this kooky notion?

Prayers for this man; he has a mouth like the Energizer Bunny. It just keeps going and going and going and going…

Well the history channel (that fount of all knowledge) did run a very incorrect segment on the Petrine vs. the Pauline Church of the early apostles and suggested that Peter and Paul the Apostle were in contrast with one another’s teachings. Particularly some people believe this about when new Christians who were previously Gentiles had to be circumcised first. Anyway, this segment is rather off because Luke goes to pains in Acts to show that Peter and Paul were on the same page and that all the others submitted to Peter’s teaching at the Council of Jerusalem on the issue (more evidence of Petrine supremacy) The point of all this is because I don’t know exactly where he got this Paul vs Paul thing (it could have come from this same segment) but for one the history channel does run many things because they are current controversial issues and they make money. Secondly, any Protestant would go bazerk at any chance to due away with Petrine Supremacy and say that the Church messed up Paul in some way. St. Paul is Paul the Apostle, one of the greatest Christian missionaries, and the Church didn’t pervert his words, end of story.

 

[chevalier]

He went on to explain that some “St. Paul” guy who worked for “The Roman Church” “wrote about Christianity”, while Christ chose Paul to be the “thirteenth apostle” on the road to Damascus (I assume he meant Paul’s vision of Christ and his subsequent becoming a Christian), thus this “Paul the Apostle”. He said he learned this from The History Channel.

Anyone else heard about this kooky notion?

He needs an IQ test. Sorry but I can’t be any more generous at this time.

 

[svid2]

No. This is nonsense on stilts.

 

[JRKH]

I’d start asking for his sources…

Peace
James

 

[Bob_Crowley]

(snip)

Prayers for this man; he has a mouth like the Energizer Bunny. It just keeps going and going and going and going…

Well, I remember a comment by my old Protestant pastor about some of these American TV evangelists. He said, “I think they breathe through their ears”.

 

[bogeydogg]

Tonight I was talking to a Protestant about Catholicism. I began by telling him that Scripture only began being written circa 50 AD, beginning with (and I quote) Saint Paul’s Letter to the Thessalonians.

He interrupted me and asked “Do you mean ‘St. Paul’? Or Paul the Apostle?”

He went on to explain that some “St. Paul” guy who worked for “The Roman Church” “wrote about Christianity”, while Christ chose Paul to be the “thirteenth apostle” on the road to Damascus (I assume he meant Paul’s vision of Christ and his subsequent becoming a Christian), thus this “Paul the Apostle”. He said he learned this from The History Channel.

Anyone else heard about this kooky notion?

Prayers for this man; he has a mouth like the Energizer Bunny. It just keeps going and going and going and going…

I believe a high holy “pfft” is in order.

God Bless

Merry Christmas

 

[smp501]

I understand what you’re talking about. I come from a form of Protestantism without saints (Presbyterianism). They believe that all believers are equally ‘saints’ (as do Catholics), but that we are all equal before God. That is why they call the authors of the Bible the ‘Apostles.’ This guy obviously isn’t familiar with this distinction.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

… He said he learned this from The History Channel.
…

I think that explains it all.

 

[Paul_theApostle]

God bless him

 

[Izdaari]

Tonight I was talking to a Protestant about Catholicism. I began by telling him that Scripture only began being written circa 50 AD, beginning with (and I quote) Saint Paul’s Letter to the Thessalonians.

He interrupted me and asked “Do you mean ‘St. Paul’? Or Paul the Apostle?”

He went on to explain that some “St. Paul” guy who worked for “The Roman Church” “wrote about Christianity”, while Christ chose Paul to be the “thirteenth apostle” on the road to Damascus (I assume he meant Paul’s vision of Christ and his subsequent becoming a Christian), thus this “Paul the Apostle”. He said he learned this from The History Channel.

Anyone else heard about this kooky notion?

Prayers for this man; he has a mouth like the Energizer Bunny. It just keeps going and going and going and going…

Yeah, kooky. Of course St. Paul and the Apostle Paul are the same guy. Two different honorifics, same man, same teachings. Like you said, a case of Energizer Bunny mouth, and History Channel misinformation (they may have televised nonsense, or they may have got it right and he misunderstood it… either seems likely enough).