Bible Study Does Anybody Know The Answer to This Question?

[HeIsRisen2018]

Because I remember asking this question as a child back when I was in Sunday school and my teacher didn't know the answer to it. Now it's been about twenty years and my question still remains unanswered so I was wondering if anybody here could answer it for me. In the book of Samuel there is a guy named Saul and I vaguely remember him changing his name to Paul later on and I do believe that he became an apostle.. Is that the same guy who wrote certain parts of the Bible?

 

[Michael74]

There is more than one Saul. The Saul in Samuel is not the same Saul that changed his name to Paul. Paul is in the New Testament only. He wrote many of the New Testament letters such as Romans.

 

[jasonc]

King Saul ,not saul that is also known as Paul

 

[Papa Zoom]

Samuel was an OT prophet. Saul was Israel's first King. Saul in the NT was a Pharisee and a persecutor of the Church. His name wasn't changed to Paul. That is the name the gentiles would have known him by.

 

[Papa Zoom]

https://www.gotquestions.org/Saul-Paul.html

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

Oh okay thanks guys! The question that had been a mystery to me for twenty years finally has an answer lol and now I know why his name was changed too.

 

[Papa Zoom]

Oh okay thanks guys! The question that had been a mystery to me for twenty years finally has an answer lol and now I know why his name was changed too.

Hun, his name wasn't changed. He had two names. A Roman name and a Hebrew name. ;)

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

Hun, his name wasn't changed. He had two names. A Roman name and a Hebrew name. ;)

Oh yeah, that's right lol it was basically the same name in a different language right?

 

[Papa Zoom]

Oh yeah, that's right lol it was basically the same name in a different language right?

Pretty much as I understand it. ;)

 

[JohnDB]

Now...what really twists my biscuits is that they both were from the Tribe of Benjamin.
And that's pretty special. With unique name changes and everything.
Benjamin's name had been changed as well. It's a never ending group of unique coincidenses.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

Now...what really twists my biscuits is that they both were from the Tribe of Benjamin.
And that's pretty special. With unique name changes and everything.
Benjamin's name had been changed as well. It's a never ending group of unique coincidenses.

Really?? Lol, that is a strange coincidence.

 

[JohnDB]

Really?? Lol, that is a strange coincidence.

I think that it was God's intention all along. Something that He was telegraphing from thousands of years earlier.

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

I think that it was God's intention all along. Something that He was telegraphing from thousands of years earlier.

Really? Did He use Morse code by any chance?

 

[th1b.taylor]

Because I remember asking this question as a child back when I was in Sunday school and my teacher didn't know the answer to it. Now it's been about twenty years and my question still remains unanswered so I was wondering if anybody here could answer it for me. In the book of Samuel there is a guy named Saul and I vaguely remember him changing his name to Paul later on and I do believe that he became an apostle.. Is that the same guy who wrote certain parts of the Bible?

Absolutely! Paul, formerly Saul wrote thirteen for certain i the New Testament and the Book of Hebrews is disputed between Paul ane the doctor, Luke.

 

[Razeontherock]

King Saul of OT and Saul of Tarsus in the NT lived what, 800 years apart?

 

[HeIsRisen2018]

King Saul of OT and Saul of Tarsus in the NT lived what, 800 years apart?

Yeah I guess I didn't think about that part before lol