Decades Later They Found God in Jesus
How can you know that God appears before you or God is speaking to you if He should?
But Abraham immediately knew that he was hearing God's voice. Moses almost immediately found God in a fire of a bush. And even Muhammad believed that he heard words of Allah. Indeed great religions were started by those who had ability to see God appearing or speaking.
However, according to the Gospels, disciples or followers of Christ Jesus who were with Him for 24 hours a day in every week for three years did not or could not recognize that they were with God, if Christ Jesus had been God. And, as a kind of comedy, Christ Jesus asked them who they thought He was. Would God ask anybody who is with Him who he or she thinks He is? When God makes contact with somebody like in the cases of Abraham and Moses, there must be a specific reason and He must make it clear that it is God that is speaking to him or her while God can use any angels for each specific purpose.
Especially Jewish people were more religion-oriented people than any other people, specifically, in the Roman Empire. So, like Abraham or Moses, they must have been able to realize God if they had encountered God even 2000 years ago, although Abraham had heard God about 4000 years ago and Moses saw God more than about 3300 years ago.
In the case of Paul, he heard voices of Christ Jesus but he did not recognize it as voices of God. And Paul did not write letters claiming that he heard voices of God in his way to Damascus. Paul should have honestly told that he must have more concentrated simply on God than on Christ Jesus, in a sense. If Paul had thought that he was spoken to by God, he must have proclaimed and advertised it more loudly and proudly. And, in the case, Paul did not have to trouble himself so much in making people understand who and what Christ Jesus was, because Paul had to only say that he had heard such and such things from God like Muhammad.
This ability to recognize God is the key to understanding the Christian Gospels. No mater how much you have made efforts in studying and analyzing the Gospels, you cannot find who and what Christ Jesus was and why and how Christianity was established.
Only I can say is that decades after the execution of Christ Jesus, some early Christians found that Christ Jesus had been God, which established the religion called Christianity. But why did it take decades for them to surely believe that Christ Jesus was God? This is the true mystery of Christianity.
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Mat 11:29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
Mat 11:30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.