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Paul knew Luke. He would've learned much there. Paul also met Jesus face to face on the road to Damascus! He also went to Arabia and was taught by the Spirit of God in the wilderness for 3 years. If anything, Paul's understanding of the gospel was from a completely different perspective than that of the others due to his extensive knowledge of Torah. This man sat at the feet of Gamaliel the high priest and mastered the Torah. Remember this, all the law and the prophets speak of Yeshua and His Kingdom......I wouldve loved to have been a fly on the wall when He expounded on the Scriptures to those men on the Emmaus road concerning everything about Himself!! Paul gives us an idea of what might've been said.
I will also mention that this apostle also was caught up into 3rd heaven and seen things in that realm that couldnt really be expressed with words. In I Corinthians
15:8-11 Paul says something interesting... And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.
For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
This phrase born out of due time is the Greek word ektromah which in this instance figuratively means an abortion (TOO EARLY). This seems to indicate to me that the apostle was a man AHEAD of his time......he was on the scene too early....not as a latecomer!!! Even Peter mentioned "the hard sayings of Paul" and that those who are unlearned and unstable wrestle with them and the other Scriptures to their own destruction.
One also has to remember that Christ spoke in parables deliberately to keep most folks from understanding the kingdom. Paul's focus was to reveal and glorify the risen Christ openly. You would come to the same understanding as Paul if you take the parables of Jesus and apply Torah principles to them. For example the man that owed 10,000 talents and couldnt pay was a picture of Adam incurring the debt of original sin to himself and his estate (all of creation). Go back to Leviticus 25 and apply the principles found therein to the situation and you come up with Romans 6! This why I personally feel Paul wrote Hebrews, altho scholars debate about it. He was about the only one with the prerequisite knowledge concerning the Levitical Priesthood and its pertinent ordinances to compare and contrast it with the more excellent priesthood of Melchizedek (Jesus).
One final example of this....Peter preached Acts 2:38 which is repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. Paul deals with this in Romans 5 and 6 in other words but says the same thing.....and if you believe that he also wrote Hebrews, chapter 6 of that book clearly states the foundation of the Christian faith....Repentance from dead works, Faith towards God, Doctrine of baptisms, Laying on of hands, Resurrection of the dead, Eternal judgment. Its a question of perspective.
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