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Book: St. Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate
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  1. Karen Armstrong _ St. Paul: The Apostle We Love

    There are many opinionated religious people who would do well to heed Paul's warnings to the "strong" who were intimidating the "weak" with their overbearing certainty. Above all, we need to take seriously Paul's insight that no virtue was valid unless it was imbued with a love that was not a luxurious emotion in the heart but must be expressed daily and practically in self-emptying concern for others."
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  2. Karen Armstrong _ St. Paul: The Apostle We Love

    Paul had been doing his best to hasten the coming of the Messiah; that was the "good" that he was trying to do. But in an overwhelming moment of truth, he realized that Jesus's followers were absolutely right and that his persecution of their community had actually impeded the arrival of the Messianic Age. As if this were not enough, his violence had broken the fundamental principles of the Torah: love of God and love of neighbor. In his excessive ardor for the law's integrity, he had forgotten God's stern command: "Thou shalt not kill.
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