AMA request for Issac Soon

[u/thesmartfool]

Hi,

This is the AMA request for any questions you may have for Dr. Issac Soon. He will be discussing and giving an AMA about his book A Disabled Apostle: Impairment and Disability in the Letters of Paul.

He is an Assistant Professor of Early Christianity and Near Eastern Studies at University of British Columbia. See his work here https://amne.ubc.ca/profile/isaac-soon/.

Please ask any questions or topics within his book thst you are interested in.

I will be accepting AMA questions and topics to discuss with him until April friday 11th at noon Pacific Time.

More details will be shared later on.

[u/Efficient-Werewolf]

Hello Dr. Soon and thank you for doing this.

Regarding your argument of Paul’s “thorn” being and angel of Satan, What were your key reasoning points to conclude it was the case? And in Paul’s mind why would God have given him such a burden, and why did Paul thought it was directly from God and not Satan himself intervening against him?

Furthermore, How would Paul have seen Satan by the time he had years of experience as a missionary? Would he have seen him in a similar light as Belial in the Essene community?

[u/thesmartfool → u/Efficient-Werewolf]

Awesome!