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list Picking up from yesterday, the second leg of the trip...
This is still acts of the apostles.  My guess with Paul and his
vision, is that he was already having second thoughts about what
he was doing, perhaps not willing to admit those doubts to
himself, or feeling compelled for some reason to stay the
course, so when he had his vision, it articulated those doubts
better than he was able to do on his own, and so he felt
permission to do what he was already inclined to do anyway,
which was quit his job. He certainly wouldn't be the first
person to go from one end of the debate to the other. In the
modern health care debate, for instance, look at a guy like
Wendell Potter. Once the guy that did the enforcing and helped
to screw people out of their coverage, now advocating strongly
against everything health insurance companies stand for, having
seen it on the inside.  Now in Romans.  Other than saying that
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