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It's not a theory, it's a claim.THEORY
If there was only new information then how is it that in Acts 26 Paul said nothing about about being told to go to Damascus?
It's about the differences between Acts 26 and Acts 9. There is also circumstantial evidence that Paul and others were the false apostles rejected at Ephesus.
The evidence that I have provided in this thread includes a description of the differences between Acts 26 and Acts 9.We can use the word “claim” if you want since your "claim" fits the definition of an "assertion...without providing evidence or proof"
You haven't shown anything from Acts 26 which describes how Paul was told to go Damascus by Jesus as is described in Acts 9 and Acts 22.12 While doing this as I was traveling to Damascus with authority and a commission from the chief priests ...
My claim is substantiated by the differences between Paul's account of events in Acts 26 and the accounts of events from Acts 9.So, to be clear, your unsubstantiated claim
The substance of the claim is that:UNSUBSTANTIATED CLAIM
Acts 26 and Acts 9 differ as to who told Paul what he was to do, where he was told, and what he was told.
I believe that is just another way to avoid reality and live in fantasyland.Many Jews would object to the terminology of "messiah"(especially capitalized). The word messiah is a corruption of the Hebrew word "moshiach". The meaning of the word messiah has been co-opted so much with the Christian definition of it that it is unpalatable to many Jews. Jews use the word moschiach.
I believe many of them were written by Jews.Christian sources are by definition not Jewish.
That's incorrect. Christian texts refer to the prophetic texts of Judaism. Christianity reinterprets them, but those interpretations are not the same thing as the texts themselves.Christian sources are by definition not Jewish.
Only if Paul/Saul's testimony in Acts 26 is interpreted as being untruthful.The biblical account is clear:
No, there were no Christians at that time.1) Saul was sent by the Pharisees to Damascus to persecute Christians there.
Acts 22 contradicts Acts 26 because in Acts 26 Saul isn't told to go to Damascus but instead is told that he is to be a minister and witness when his actual role was to bear the name and to suffer.The event in which Jesus tells Saul to continue on his way to where he was going, Damascus, is only recorded in Acts. 22:10, but it does not contradict at all the rest of the story according to the other biblical accounts.