"Yes, I know, it sounds ludicrous on its face but Professor Robert Eisenman of California State University at Long Beach has concluded that the apostle Paul, in all likelihood, was a member of the house of Herod. See Paul as Herodian. What's the case for Paul as a descendant of Herod? Granted, it's circumstantial but many a person has been convicted of a capital crime and sent to their death based on circumstantial evidence. "
http://www.jjraymond.com/religion/pauldescendantofherod.html
Paul asserted that he received the Gospel not from any person, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ.[Gal. 1:11-12] Paul claimed almost total independence from the Jerusalem community[14] and yet appeared eager to bring material support from the various budding Gentile churches that he planted to Jerusalem. In his writings, Paul persistently used the persecutions he claimed to have endured, in terms of physical beatings and verbal assaults, to claim proximity and union with Jesus and as a validation of his teaching.
http://www.thelowestroom.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=303&sid=dd5ce6febe1aa90f04468f4bb8bc612f
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