Ep 265: Did the Apostle Paul Actually Kill Believers Before Damascus?

About this episode

The episode discusses the misconception that Apostle Paul killed Christians before his conversion on the road to Damascus.

In this episode I address the popular misconception that the apostle Paul, formerly Saul, was personally responsible for the killing of Christians before his Damascus Road experience. In popular Christian imagination, Paul was the ‘persecutor and killer’ of Christians before his dramatic encounter with the risen Jesus. While Paul did indeed viciously persecute the church, there is no New Testament evidence that any believer actually died by Paul’s hand. I look at all the New Testament texts w...

People in this episode

Host: Alex Bernardo

Topics covered

• Apostle Paul
• Christian persecution
• Damascus Road experience
• New Testament
• Christianity

Keywords

• Apostle Paul
• Christianity
• persecution
• Damascus Road
• New Testament
• Saul
• beliefs

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