“A Jew For The Gentiles”

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Was St. Paul (Saul) a Roman gentile and a Jew?  Was he a Gentile Jew?

Sincerely,
Paul Ponderer

Dear Paul Ponderer,

Paul was a Jew, not a Gentile.  Paul could trace his lineage through the tribe of Benjamin (Php 3:5).  The word ‘gentile’ means ‘nations’ because anyone that wasn’t of the nation of Israel was lumped together in the mind of the Jews.  Paul was sent by God to preach to the Gentiles for most of his christian life (Acts 22:21), but Paul was never a Gentile; he was always of Jewish descendant.

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