It was more important for Saul to be baptized than to eat and therefore, spirituality is more important that even physical life.
Next, the Book of Acts stated "He stayed some time with the disciples in Damascus. Without delay he proclaimed Jesus publicly in the synagogues, declaring him to he the Son of God. All those who heard were astounded." (Acts 9.20-21)
It is no wonder that those who heard Saul, at this time called Paul, were astounded. After all, he had been the leader of those who not only rejected Jesus Christ, but actively sought the destruction of his followers. Paul had very little credibility, or Ethos, among early Christians as many of those he tried to join with were wary of his intentions. Many thought his "conversion" was a trick to gain information about the membership of the Christians.
This began to changed when those who doubted Paul heard him preach. They asked "is not this the man, they said, who was in Jerusalem hunting down those who invoke this name? Did he not come here for the sole purpose of arresting them and taking them before the chief priests?" (Acts 9.21) But it was Paul's consistency of message, the clarity of his claim and the logic of his reasons, in other words his Logos, which convinced many of the early Christians that his conversion was indeed genuine. The subsequent line in the passage explained how he had done this, "But Paul went from strength to strength, and confounded the Jews of Damascus with his cogent proofs that Jesus was the Messiah." (Acts 9.23) Paul had been a member of the Pharisees, and educated man, but the fact that he had lived in Tarsus also was an indication that he was a Hellenized Jew and well versed in Greek culture, including the "sciences" such as logic. Paul put his worldly education to use in his defense of Jesus as the Messiah.
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