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Many people today have a negative view of Paul. He is accused of not being a faithful follower of Jesus because of his failure to refer much to Christ’s early life and teaching in his letters. He is seen as a freelance who did his own thing with the Christian faith, changing Jesus’ good ideas and introducing bad ones, especially about women and sex. He is also often thought to be arrogant and...

Paul does not tell us much about his background in his letters; why should he? But we do know • his name—Paulos. It was a common Graeco-Roman name. • that he came from a practising Jewish family: ‘circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews, as to the law a Pharisee’ (Philippians 3:5). • that as an adult, he had a trade ‘working with his hands’ (1 Corinthians 4:12; 1
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