WHAT WAS PAUL THINKING?
JACK JACOBS
Most of us have pondered various Bible passages where we feel we have to read between the lines in order to grasp more than the text provides us. The current Chosen series, and the more recent, House of David series provides some of this for us quite effectively. After all, this is a common practice for everyone who seriously studies Scripture. Biblical interpretation and hermeneutics are theological terms that apply to trying to more fully understand God’ s Word.
My goal in this article is to use these same hermeneutical tools in exploring one of the most dramatic statements ever proclaimed by the Apostle Paul in the Brit Hadashah. Paul( Sha’ ul), who is one of the most quoted authors in Scriptures was used by God to have written nearly 25 % of the Brit Hadashah. In all of Paul’ s writings there is one verse that stands out as expressing the unthinkable from this beloved Emissary( Apostle to the Gentiles.