Before the Wolves Became Shepherds: The Acts of the Apostles (The Nanotheology Series)

What really happened on the Day of Pentecost in 30 CE, nine days after Jesus ascended to heaven? Because of Tertullian’s invention of the Trinity in the third century CE, what occurred that day has been completely misunderstood. But if it was not “the third person of the Trinity” that descended on the apostles in Jerusalem, what was it then? And what happened on the road to Damascus when Paul was sent there to arrest and kill Christians in Damascus? Bible critics insist that the description of Paul’s conversion in chapter nine contradicts what is said about it in Acts chapter twenty-two. But this apparent inconsistency disappears when we read the two descriptions of the same event carefully. The commentators also believe that Paul was converted several years after Jesus’ ascension to heaven. The reason why they fail to see that this happened just a few months after the ascension is that they refuse to believe what Paul says about this in his letter to the churches in Galatia, which, contrary to what most commentators believe, was the first letter Paul wrote. In this volume we will also get the correct dates for when he wrote his two letters to the Thessalonians, as well as his two letters to the Corinthians and his letter to the believers in Rome. In 56 CE, Paul sailed from Philippi to Jerusalem with a monetary gift to the believers there, a journey that God did everything he could to persuade Paul not to make. Paul’s refusal to listen to God was detrimental to Paul’s missionary work because he was arrested in the Temple immediately after his arrival by the Jewish religious leaders. After two years in prison in Caesarea, Paul was sent to Rome to present his case to Emperor Nero. Luke, who wrote Acts, does not tell us what Paul did after his release in 61 CE but in Volume X in this series we shall see what happened to Paul. This is the seventh of twelve books in the Nanotheology series. This concept is inspired by the word nanotechnology, which refers to the manipulation of matter on an atomic scale. Only by paying careful attention to the minutest details in the Bible will we discover how much of God’s Word we have missed out on, especially during the last couple of centuries when the hermeneutics of suspicion has been in vogue in theology. The Bible is the greatest bestseller of all time, but it is poorly understood – for instead of reading what is written, most theologians have projected their private opinions upon the text. Nanotheology is all about letting the Scriptures speak for themselves.