Deana
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God forgives murder and Paul thought by persecuting Christians he was doing God's work.
Jews though they were satisfying God too.
God knew that Paul wanted to satisfy him...so he blinded him and then Paul eyes were opened. Paul realized he was making a mistake
keyjona
After Jesus finished teaching the Gospel, the anti-Christ came and planted his words so close to Jesus' words that his words can not be removed without uprooting Jesus' words: Theophilus, Luke, and Paul, contaminated the Gospel by changing Mark and Matthew's Gospel then adding their own gentile scriptures.
antichrist originally meant "substitute" or "instead of".
gillie
You know the only source for the claim that Jesus chose Paul is Paul himself, right? (Acts was written by one of Paul's close followers.) Doesn't that seem a bit self-serving?
Anonymous
So unbelievers would hate him for killing His Christians (John 15:18)!
PAY BACK!
"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap" (Galatians 6:7)!
GOD doesn't PLAY!
"Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm" (I Chronicles 16:22)!
Anonymous
I think it may have been because He recognized that Paul was an intense person that would relentlessly pursue that which he believed in. Either that or that was what the Father told Him to do!