10-08-2003, 09:39 PM
drmlanc Wrote:Paul was a Pharisee, no?
Paul was a Pharisee with modified doctrines which put him on the same side with Kepha and Yaqob at the Yerushalayim Council, and not with the minority party among the believers "who belonged to the party of the Pharisees" (Acts 15:1-5). Paul seems to refer to himself as a Pharisee in that he still retained as much of the traditions of the Pharisees as could be reconciled with what Y'shu taught, which I'm sure would make him a "truer Pharisee" in his own eyes than the proto-Ebionites who constantly interfered with him even after the Council.
Shlama, Craig