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A few questions concerning Paul 4 Months, 2 Weeks ago  
Greetings everyone. I have been reading this site for about a year and much what is discussed concerning Paul being a False Apostle, I agree with due to my own studies. I have a few questions or should I say, like to have your opinions on what I write and maybe more insight. I am doing this off a whim, hopefully things make sense in the order I am doing it.

1. In Acts 9 Ananias said this, "13 “Lord,” Ananias answered, “I have heard many reports about this man and all the harm he has done to your holy people in Jerusalem. 14 And he has come here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.” Earlier in Chapter 9, we learn of Paul's intentions, "1 Meanwhile, Saul was still breathing out murderous threats against the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest 2 and asked him for letters to the synagogues in Damascus, so that if he found any there who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem. So, the question is... When Ananias was supposedly talking to Christ, how did Ananias know Paul had authority from the chief priest(s), when Paul on his own accord requested that the followers be taken prisoners that were in Damascus?

Also, we learn two chapters later (Acts 11) of something that happened before the road to Damascus, "19 Now those who had been scattered by the persecution that broke out when Stephen was killed traveled as far as Phoenicia, Cyprus and Antioch, spreading the word only among Jews." I know that Damascus is closer to Jerusalem than Cyprus & Antioch, so logically the True Gospel would have been heard here also and sooner, as depicted in Chapter 9.

So, why is it written, "reading the word only among Jews."? Why only among Jews, there has to be a reasoning behind this? As we see in Ch. 9, there were disciples and Jews in Damascus that heard of his name/the Word of Yeshua, even in the synagogues. Then why were the earlier disciples in Damascus not persecuted/put to death by the Jews from the Synagogues, as they wanted to do with Paul? Seems like there was peace before Paul came between the earlier disciples and the other Jews; just like the respect Peter and James received from other Jews during the Council at Jerusalem. Is it because, the words that have already been written and scattered out by the followers of Yeshua was the true gospel that was in agreement to the Law of Moses/Torah? So then, does this mean, what Paul was preaching in Damascus was against the Torah, which riled up the Jews, and not necessarily the Words of Yeshua that was given to the Apostles while Yeshua was in the flesh?

This reminds me of the Letters by John, when breaking down that of the anti-christ. In 1 John 2, "22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also." and in 2 John 1 "7 I say this because many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist. 8 Watch out that you do not lose what we[a] have worked for, but that you may be rewarded fully. 9 Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son."

Later in Ch. 9 of Acts, we read Paul goes to Jerusalem and met the disciples and Apostles? Yet, not a word by an Apostle accepting Paul's words/preachings to be true, we are led to believe that they agreed with Paul because he stayed in Jerusalem freely with them. Many say that if Paul was an advocate of Satan, then the Apostles would have brought this to light then, well did they not? In 1 John 2, "19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us." It said Barnabas introduced Paul to the Apostles, which is convenient for Paul. Since in Ch. 11 of Acts, it was Barnabas who was sent out from Jerusalem to Antioch when the Word of God came to the Greeks there, when before the Word was kept among the Jews only. Then Barnabas went to Tarsus to seek Paul, bringing him back to Antioch where they were first called Christians. In Ch.9 of Acts, the Hellenistic Jews wanted to kill Paul, then the Believers sent Paul off to Tarsus away from them. Is it not written next after this event in Acts 9, "31 Then the church throughout Judea, Galilee and Samaria enjoyed a time of peace and was strengthened. Living in the fear of the Lord and encouraged by the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers."

Later, when Paul returned to Jerusalem, the Apostles wrote a letter to be sent to the gentiles and confirmed by word of mouth by Judas and Silas with Paul and Barnabas to the churches of Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia. Again they are sent out from the Apostles and did Paul or Barnabas follow through with this agreement? No, because Judas and Silas together did not confirmed by mouth in the churches of Syria and Cilicia for they were sent back to Jerusalem from Antioch. Also, we know by the Galatians 2, that Paul said different to the Gentiles, what was required from the Apostles at the Council at Jerusalem in, "They agreed that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised. 10 All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I had been eager to do all along."

I got more, but ran out of time.. I cant wait to converse with many of you all
 
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