Neville's answer to being called a convert, said of Paul and meant of himself. A convert is normally understood as one who was a Jew and became a Christian, or the reverse; that, he says, is not a convert in the true mystical sense of the word. Paul never for one moment gave up Judaism - his last plea before Agrippa is still for the hope of the promise made to our fathers - and what happened on the Damascus road was not a change of religion but the fulfilment of the vision Abraham was shown and believed. So the teaching is not new and not man-made: it is as old as the faith of Abraham, and it fulfils the fifty-third of Isaiah rather than replacing it. The difficulty Neville names is not that the claim is hard to understand but that it is hard to credit, and he ends on the question rather than the assertion: who will believe it?
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I do not bring a new religion. It is not man-made. It is one that is as old as the faith of Abraham
He never for once, not for one moment, ever gave up Judaism
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LecturePaul's Autobiography
He never for once, not for one moment, ever gave up Judaism. His last plea before King Agrippa is: “I stand here in chains for the hope of the promise made to our fathers – by God Himself.”
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