turbosixx
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If you showed me where it changed, I didn't pick up on it, sorry. I don't see anywhere Paul converted Christians different than those before him. If he did, could you please point it out.I showed you, but due to your extreme bias you cannot see it.
Pattern doesn't necessarily mean original. He is an example because if the "chief" sinner can receive mercy, anyone can. That's the context.Paul said that he is THE PATTERN. A PATTERN comes first, then those that conform to the pattern.
15 The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost. 16 But I received mercy for this reason, that in me, as the foremost, Jesus Christ might display his perfect patience as an example to those who were to believe in him for eternal life.
I don't see how his conversion is different than those before him. Until he was baptized, he was still in his sins.
16 And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.’
How do you know Paul will be absent? Manasseh is substituted for Dan which is on of the twelve original tribes?In the new Jerusalem, Paul is conspicuously absent... why?
Rev 21:12-14 (KJV)(21:12) And had a wall great and high, [and] had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are [the names] of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel: (21:13) On the east three gates; on the north three gates; on the south three gates; and on the west three gates. (21:14) And the wall of the city had twelve foundations, and in them the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Rev. 7:4 And I heard the number of the sealed, 144,000, sealed from every tribe of the sons of Israel:
5 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed,
12,000 from the tribe of Reuben,
12,000 from the tribe of Gad,
6 12,000 from the tribe of Asher,
12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali,
12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,
712,000 from the tribe of Simeon,
12,000 from the tribe of Levi,
12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,
8 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun,
12,000 from the tribe of Joseph,
12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.