I stand corrected. How about it Angelous, why should we believe that Paul had a conversation with dead Jesus? Did Paul ever even meet Jesus in real life?
Rick -
When we get to these things, we are dealing with traditional material.
The book of Acts tells us the details of Paul's conversion, and the book of Acts is "the book of the Acts of Paul." It's the second volume of the Gospel according to Luke. I personally think that Luke and Paul met, because the book of Acts so closely matches the Pauline literature. And Paul had extensive contact with Peter, James, John, and other early leaders - according to Acts.
But no one claims that Paul met Jesus, but he claimed to have a miraculous conversion experience where he meets the Resurrected Jesus.
An interesting thing to me is that Paul wrote his letters at the time that the earliest portions of the Gospels were being circulated and used in worship... and the Gospels were written and edited to their present form after Paul's death.
The Gospels are an affirmation of Paul's ministries and writings, affirming his core teaching: that the message of Jesus is for both the Jew and the Gentile. The rest is just details.