Journeys with an Apostle – First Mission – Paul in Cyprus and Galatia? Did Saint Paul, native of Tarsus and Roman citizen.

Did this erstwhile Rabbi Saul, student of Gamaliel and. Pharisaic Jew, really sally forth over sea and mountain – or. Jewish diaspora? A century of archaeology appears to confirm.

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On the Island of Love What better way to begin the mythology. Christian triumph in the Gentile world than a spectacular conversion? For Paul's first adventure on the missionary path the chosen venue.

Cyprus. a strategically placed island ruled by the Ptolemies of Egypt until. Rome in 5. 8 BC. Many of the vast. Egypt. Mark Antony gave. Cleopatra as a wedding gift but it was restored as. Roman province after the Battle of Actium (3.

BC). Economically prized for its copper mines. Herod. the Great by Augustus), in 2. BC the island became a senatorial province, under the rule of. Aside from a severe earthquake in 7. AD and a violent Jewish. Roman histories. But it seems that Paul's co- worker, Barnabas. Jew from Cyprus, so what better place to start the grand.

Barney's. homeland? Well, actually, a more. Decapolis – thoroughly. Gentile and far more accessible). Paul's. first journey, so it is said, began about the. AD, after the apostle had passed more than 1.

Tarsus, performing. Lord or even maintaining contact with. Yet Paul is chosen by the church in Antioch (or rather. Holy Spirit) to carry the good news to Cyprus and. Asia Minor. (Not that he was really the first – Acts. Jews. alone". The aside is very important.

After a stopover at Salamis. Citium, Amathus and Curium don't get a mention). Governor. in Paphos, who conveniently. Why. one wonders? Did they cause such a commotion at the other end. And if so why do we not know of it?) All.

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Bar Jesus") and Sergius. Paulus. Roman aristocrat and doubtless the richest, as well as the most. Christians. "By tradition" Cyprus becomes the first. Christian, though oddly we never hear. Sergius again, and nor is there any evidence of early Christianity.

Hereafter, Rabbi Saul is known by his latin. Paulus (which just happens to be the. Governor). One good yarn deserves another Not only was Paul a soar away success with proconsul. Sergius – he. also got given a thrashing by him! Sounds. a little contradictory? Well, it is another "Church tradition" so.

But for this yarn, remarkably, there is physical. Paul was whipped! Apparently, the faithful can reconcile. Paul first was thrashed. Christianity (it. Mel Gibson). The miraculous upshot of all this is that a stump.

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Paul and, ipso facto, "evidence. Jesus." If you can believe this, you probably believed. WMDs in Iraq and your government would not lie to you. If. it makes you happier, you can believe that St Paul. Sergius Paulus. Rather. Sergius Paulus. that is, not St Paul) is an engraved stone found. Soli (Kyrenia) in northern.

Cyprus, at the end of the 1. About. the same time, a boundary stone was found in Rome. Emperor Claudius (4. Sergius Paulus appointed a curator "of. River Tiber." Was. Paul's "epistle to the. Romans" fails. to greet him, which suggests it was not. Reality Check "Paul's first missionary journey under the auspices.

Antioch is narrated only by Luke .. A close analysis of this. Murphy. O'Connor, Paul, His Story, p. In reality, the Cyprian story falls apart for a.

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Governor's palace, even. Roman occupation. The huge palace complex. Exquisite mosaic floors. Roman- Hellenic gods – and all. Christian icon in sight! Ancient Paphos had.

Asklepion. the. shrine- cum- hospital of the ever- popular healing god Asclepius, until his overthrow by Jesus. We might. also reasonably suspect a fraudster's work because of a curious. Luke" (the. purported author of Acts).

Josephus written in the 9. Aerial view of the proconsul's residence. Paphos. Did Paul make it past the front door? Where did they. get their ideas from?

Josephus. (Antiquities 2. Acts 1. 3, 4- 8 'Jewish. Cypriot magician, pal of Roman governor, works a dirty.

Jewish Cypriot magician, pal of Roman. While Felix was procurator of. Judea, he saw this Drusilla, and fell in love with her. He sent to her a person whose name was Simon*,one. Jew he was, and by birth a Cypriot. They sailed. to Cyprus .. And when they had gone through the isle.

Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer. Jew, whose name was Bar- Jesus. Which was with the proconsul.

Sergius Paulus, a prudent man. Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word. God. But Elymas* the sorcerer (for so is his name by.

But according to some manuscripts. Josephus is "Atomos", itself. Hetoimos (Elymas?) or a Greek word for small (as indeed is Paulus in Latin).

In. no way is Elymas a translation or even an equivalent. Bar- Jesus. Not to waste a useful bit of story.

Felix and his "adulterous" bride Drusilla show up later. Acts –. when Paul, it seems, gave them a dressing down!"And after certain days, when. Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess. Paul, and heard him concerning the faith. Christ. And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance. Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when. I have a convenient season, I will call for thee." (Acts 2.

Acts 1. 3, 9- 1. 2 By a malicious act of cruelty, St Paul. Christian. Our noble St Paul sets the tone for. The author of. Acts continues his demonising of "the Jews". The colourful spell is composed of words and phrases. Septuagint (the Greek translation. Jewish scripture)."Then Saul, (who.

Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set. O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou. Lord? And now, behold, the hand of. Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a. Then the deputy, when he. Lord."Facing down the "children of the devil" "Persecutions, afflictions.

Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions. I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me."  – Timothy. Rather than capitalise on the conversion of a rich and powerful. Cyprus, Saul- now- Paul sails off to Pisidia for far. Reaching the city of Pisidian. Antioch (modern. Yalvac) high in the Taurus Mountains.

Paul delivers in the local synagogue "part two" of Stephen's. Acts 7. (together. Jewish history from Abraham through. John the Baptist).

Like Stephen, Paul finishes his lecture by insulting. Jewish audience ("Behold, you despisers. Acts. 1. 3. 4. 1) . On the next Sabbath "almost.

Jews envied" Paul's pulling power. We thus reach a crucial point in the whole Christian saga: "We. Gentiles", says Paul."It was necessary that the word of. God should be spoken to you first, but since you reject it and. Gentiles. For so the Lord commanded us, I have set thee. Gentiles, to be a means of salvation to the. Acts 1. 3, 4. 6,4.

The. Jews of Antioch, after all, had hada. Acts 1. 3. 4. 4) to abandon. Paul's new sect, even if they. Sergius Paulus! Pisidian Antioch.

Settled with. Roman veterans by Augustus in 2. BC, the city covered. AD. Could Paul really have competed. The distortion. lens of Christian belief encourages the silly notion. Jewish synagogue alike. Not unexpectedly, "the Jews" had Paul and Barnabas expelled. None abashed, our intrepid heroes dust themselves.

Iconium (modern. Konya). Here the drama repeats itself (although the apostles supposedly. They speak "boldly" in. Jews", and precipitate. Paul and Barnabas now flee south and east. Lystra (Hatunsaray) and Derbe (Kerti.

Hüyük). In Lystra, a pronouncement from Paul allows a lame man to walk. Peter's healing. in Acts 3). The miracle causes. Paul to be the god Hermes, and. Barnabas, oddly, to be the king of the gods, Zeus. As it happens, the visit of Zeus and.

Hermes to Phrygia. Ovid's 1st century anthology. Metamorphoses" but surely.

Luke" didn't copy the idea? The adulation of the apostles is short- lived, however, because. Paul launches a diatribe against an imminent sacrifice to the. Barnabas is thought to be.

The people, now stirred up "by Jews" from far off Antioch. Iconium (do they just happen to be. Paul and dump. his. Acts. 1. 4. 1. 9). However, miraculously he "rose. Lystra. By the standards of. Paphos, this wondrous working of the Holy Spirit should have.

Xenu - Wikipedia. Xenu (),[1][2][3] also called Xemu, was, according to Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who 7. Earth (then known as "Teegeeack") in DC- 8- like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes, and killed them with hydrogen bombs. Official Scientology scriptures hold that the thetans (immortal spirits) of these aliens adhere to humans, causing spiritual harm.[1][6]These events are known within Scientology as "Incident II",[7] and the traumatic memories associated with them as "The Wall of Fire" or "R6 implant". The narrative of Xenu is part of Scientologist teachings about extraterrestrial civilizations and alien interventions in earthly events, collectively described as "space opera" by Hubbard.

Hubbard detailed the story in Operating Thetan level III (OT III) in 1. R6 implant" (past trauma)[8] was "calculated to kill (by pneumonia, etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it".[8][9][1. Within the Church of Scientology, the Xenu story is part of the church's secret "Advanced Technology",[7] considered a sacred and esoteric teaching,[1. The church avoids mention of Xenu in public statements and has gone to considerable effort to maintain the story's confidentiality, including legal action on the grounds of copyright and trade secrecy.[1. Officials of the Church of Scientology widely deny or try to hide the Xenu story.[1. Despite this, much material on Xenu has leaked to the public via court documents, copies of Hubbard's notes, and the Internet.[1.

In commentary on the impact of the Xenu text, academic scholars have discussed and analyzed the writings by Hubbard and their place within Scientology within the contexts of science fiction,[1. UFO religions,[1.

Gnosticism[1. 8][1. Summary. A DC- 8 aircraft in 2. Hubbard described Xenu's spacecraft as looking exactly like DC- 8s without "fans" (meaning the jet engines, or turbofans).[2. The story of Xenu is covered in OT III, part of Scientology's secret "Advanced Technology" doctrines taught only to advanced members who have undergone many hours of auditing and reached the state of Clear followed by Operating Thetan levels 1 and 2.[7][1. It is described in more detail in the accompanying confidential "Assists" lecture of October 3, 1.

Revolt in the Stars (a screen- story – in the form of a novel – written by L. Ron Hubbard in 1. Hubbard wrote that Xenu was the ruler of a Galactic Confederacy 7. Earth, which was then known as "Teegeeack".[5][8][2.

The planets were overpopulated, containing an average population of 1. The Galactic Confederacy's civilization was comparable to our own, with aliens "walking around in clothes which looked very remarkably like the clothes they wear this very minute" and using cars, trains and boats looking exactly the same as those "circa 1. Earth.[2. 4]Xenu was about to be deposed from power, so he devised a plot to eliminate the excess population from his dominions. With the assistance of psychiatrists, he gathered billions[4][5] of his citizens under the pretense of income tax inspections, then paralyzed them and froze them in a mixture of alcohol and glycol to capture their souls. The kidnapped populace was loaded into spacecraft for transport to the site of extermination, the planet of Teegeeack (Earth).[5] The appearance of these spacecraft would later be subconsciously expressed in the design of the Douglas DC- 8, the only difference being that "the DC8 had fans, propellers on it and the space plane didn't".[2.

When they had reached Teegeeack, the paralyzed citizens were unloaded around the bases of volcanoes across the planet.[5][8]Hydrogen bombs were then lowered into the volcanoes and detonated simultaneously,[8] killing all but a few aliens. Hubbard described the scene in his film script, Revolt in the Stars: Simultaneously, the planted charges erupted. Atomic blasts ballooned from the craters of Loa, Vesuvius, Shasta, Washington, Fujiyama, Etna, and many, many others. Arching higher and higher, up and outwards, towering clouds mushroomed, shot through with flashes of flame, waste and fission. Great winds raced tumultuously across the face of Earth, spreading tales of destruction ..— L.

Ron Hubbard, Revolt in the Stars[7]The now- disembodied victims' souls, which Hubbard called thetans, were blown into the air by the blast. They were captured by Xenu's forces using an "electronic ribbon" ("which also was a type of standing wave") and sucked into "vacuum zones" around the world. The hundreds of billions[5][2. D, super colossal motion picture" for thirty- six days.

This implanted what Hubbard termed "various misleading data"' (collectively termed the R6 implant) into the memories of the hapless thetans, "which has to do with God, the Devil, space opera, etcetera". This included all world religions; Hubbard specifically attributed Roman Catholicism and the image of the Crucifixion to the influence of Xenu. The two "implant stations" cited by Hubbard were said to have been located on Hawaii and Las Palmas in the Canary Islands.[2. In addition to implanting new beliefs in the thetans, the images deprived them of their sense of personal identity. When the thetans left the projection areas, they started to cluster together in groups of a few thousand, having lost the ability to differentiate between each other. Each cluster of thetans gathered into one of the few remaining bodies that survived the explosion. These became what are known as body thetans, which are said to be still clinging to and adversely affecting everyone except Scientologists who have performed the necessary steps to remove them.[8]A government faction known as the Loyal Officers finally overthrew Xenu and his renegades, and locked him away in "an electronic mountain trap" from which he has not escaped.[1.

Although the location of Xenu is sometimes said to be the Pyrenees on Earth, this is actually the location Hubbard gave elsewhere for an ancient "Martian report station".[2. Teegeeack was subsequently abandoned by the Galactic Confederacy and remains a pariah "prison planet" to this day, although it has suffered repeatedly from incursions by alien "Invader Forces" since that time.[5][3. In 1. 98. 8, the cost of learning these secrets from the Church of Scientology was £3,8. US$6,5. 00.[1. 0][3. This is in addition to the cost of the prior courses which are necessary to be eligible for OT III, which is often well over US$1. Belief in Xenu and body thetans is a requirement for a Scientologist to progress further along the Bridge to Total Freedom.[3.

Those who do not experience the benefits of the OT III course are expected to take it and pay for it again.[2. Scientology doctrine. Within Scientology, the Xenu story is referred to as "The Wall of Fire" or "Incident II".[7][8] Hubbard attached tremendous importance to it, saying that it constituted "the secrets of a disaster which resulted in the decay of life as we know it in this sector of the galaxy".[3. The broad outlines of the story—that 7. Scientologists; but the details are kept strictly confidential, within Scientology.

The OT III document describes that Hubbard entered the Wall of Fire but emerged alive ("probably the only one ever to do so in 7. He first publicly announced his "breakthrough" in Ron's Journal 6. RJ6. 7), a taped lecture recorded on September 2. Scientologists.[2.

According to Hubbard, his research was achieved at the cost of a broken back, knee, and arm. OT III contains a warning that the R6 implant is "calculated to kill (by pneumonia etc.) anyone who attempts to solve it".[1. Hubbard claimed that his "tech development"—i. OT materials—had neutralized this threat, creating a safe path to redemption.[8][9]The Church of Scientology forbade individuals from reading the OT III Xenu cosmogony without first having taken prerequisite courses.[3.

Scientologists warn that reading the Xenu story without proper authorization could cause pneumonia.[3.