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Authors suggest Apostle Paul faked his conversion
Pete Chagnon - OneNewsNow - 12/5/2008 7:00:00 AM

Recently The Associated Press reported that Col. Rose Mary Sheldon, the head of the history department at the Virginia Military Institute, co-authored the recently released book Operation Messiah: St. Paul, Roman Intelligence and the Birth of Christianity. The book suggests that the Apostle Paul could have been a Roman spy who faked his conversion in order to infiltrate the early Christian church.

Gary Habermas is a distinguished research professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy and Theology at Liberty University. He says even liberal critics agree that the Apostle Paul was genuine when it came to his Christian faith. And according to Habermas, they also agree that Paul wrote at least half a dozen of the books found in the New Testament.

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I've been debating some evolutionists on facebook's Answers in Genesis section. Some pretty sad stuff out there.

BTW, Paul isn't losing his head to cover up his spy gig.

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Thijs Voskuilen, who co-authored the book along with Sheldon, writes in his blog that his theory regarding Saul of Tarsus (Paul the Apostle) being a Roman spy originated when he mistyped the name of a character in a novel he was writing. Instead of typing "Paul the liar," he typed "Saul the liar."

That's...amazing. In truth, some of the greatest theories in history have come from simple slipups. For example, some of the early ground-breaking work in genetic engineering came when a young medical student was attempting to write a paper and accidentally typed the words:

• Isolate the genes of interest
  Insert the genes into a transfer vector
  Transfer the vector to the organism to be modified
  Transformation of the cells of the organism
  Separate the genetically modified organism (GMO) from those that have not been successfully modified

instead of what he meant to say which was:

• Put monkey in cage
  Poke repeatedly.