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Subject: Was Paul a Mystic?
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Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 05:59:19 EST
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2Cor 12:2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago- whether in the
	  the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God
	  knows- such a man was caught up to the third heaven.

        3 And I know how such a man- whether in the body or apart from the
	  the body I do not know, God knows-

	4 was caught up into Paradise, and heard inexpressible words, which
	  a man is not permitted to speak.

  First, what is the third heaven?

  These passages seem to describe an ecstatic state that is common to the
  Mystics of many religions. Was Paul a Mystic?


	Dave Hatcher