The Most Misleading Red Letter in the Bible: How One Verse Inside Another Man's Vision Became the Foundation of Pauline Christianity
A Focused Examination — eFireTemple The Claim There are thousands of red-lettered words across the New Testament. Most of them are presented as direct speech by Jesus in narratives where he is physically present — teaching crowds, debating Pharisees, speaking to disciples.
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A Focused Examination — eFireTemple The Claim There are thousands of red-lettered words across the New Testament. Most of them are presented as direct speech by Jesus in narratives where he is physically present — teaching crowds, debating Pharisees, speaking to disciples. Whatever questions one might raise about the historical accuracy of those passages, they are at least structurally what the red-letter convention was designed to mark: speech attributed to Jesus, in his physical presence, recorded by Gospel writers drawing on community memory. Acts 9:15 is none of those things. And yet Acts 9:15 is, by any honest measure of theological consequence, one of the most important verses in the entire Bible.
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