God's plans are highly integrated with His purpose for man:.1Corinthians 2:9; Hebrews 2:5-8; 1:5. God has chosen to utilize humans to do His work (Acts 9:15) and uses angels to assist man. 

Paul after his conversion.(Acts 9:1-21) went to be alone to be taught by Jesus Christ, after the resurrection:.Galatians 1:15-18 "But when it pleased God who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him among the heathen, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood, neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me. But I went into Arabia and returned again unto Damascus. Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter and abode with him fifteen days."

His meditative state is talked about as being in a trance. Paul received many revelations from God:.2Corinthians 12:7; Acts 22:17-21.
In these times Paul was with the great oversoul we call Christ:.Acts 26:16.

Paul also thinks that he had an out of body experience: 2Corinthians 12:1,2.

Phineas Parkhurst Quimby was one who 'traveled' and could be in two places at once. 
    A group called 'Ekankar' believes in soul travel. 

Paul called himself the."chief of sinners".(Romans 7:14-25; 1Timothy 1:15), yet knew he would receive a great reward because of the righteousness of Christ in him. Paul knew about his sins no longer counting with God and he did a lot more sinning apparently than most of us do. 

Paul's (and Jesus too) appearance was not immediately impressive:.2Corinthians 10:1. And he apparently did not see all too well either:.Galatians 6:11. This may have been his."thorn in the flesh": 2Corinthians 12:8. Tradition has it that he was bald.

Paul was divorced or widowed at this time. He was earlier, before his conversion and from many indications, a high ranking member of the Jewish Sanhedrin and one of great authority, authority of such that he was regarded by the high priest as duly dedicated to carry out and protect all aspects of the ancient law.

If Paul was a member of this high ranking body, perhaps Paul was just under the high priest in authority and/or certainly he would have been a ranking member of the council, because of his supreme learning ability which led to his impeccable qualifications:.Acts 22:3-5.

Paul refers to himself as an extraordinary Pharisee, an extremely legalistic sect with strict adherence to Old Testament practices which they thought they understood.

Paul was a Pharisee of the Pharisees:.Philippians 3:4-6; Galatians 1:14; Acts 22:3; 23:6; 26:4,5,9,11; 22:19,20; 8:1-3; 9:1,2;13,14; 7:58-8:1.

Paul changed, once he came to understand the real God:.Acts 9:21.

His being a member of the elite Sanhedrin ruling body is interpolated from what he said in the above verses, and comparing it with Acts 4:6; 

Paul was one wholehearted sincere, dedicated man, all his life in all he did:.2Corinthians 11:22; 1Timothy 1:13.

See Josephus.(for history), free download with the also free Online Bible program). For more on Paul's life see.The Life and Epistles of Paul, W. J. Conybeare and J. S. Howson, complete here.

God took Paul out of all this by striking him down and making him blind:.Acts 9:3-20; Philippians 3:6.

Paul was so sure that he was right and that Christians were wrong when it came to religion, that he would even travel to different cities to haul Christians away to be put to death -again Acts 9:1,2; Galatians 1:23. 

As a member of the Sanhedrin, a requirement was that one be married (see the great historian Josephus).

With the same fervor with which he was in error and persecuted Christians (1Corinthians 15:9; again, Acts 9:2; 22:4; 26:10-12). Paul now served God (2Corinthians 11:23-30) and kept at it in spite of an affliction that he had.

Paul became either divorced or widowed and went on to serve God being now single. More on Paul.....continue?