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Originally Posted by James Russell
Even Paul says:
I thank my God, I speak with TONGUES more than ye all.(I Corinthians14:18)
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I find it hard to fathom that Paul would say anything boastful...
1 Corinthians 11:1 Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
Wow, doing a search for the word "me" on biblegateway.com provides 3080 uses of the word me.
Number 2414 is in Matthew, let's just say... to make it easy... that the Matthew through John references of the word me, are from Jesus.
The last "me" in John is number 2803. That means the me, used from Matthew through John was Jesus, and used 389 times. (How many of those times are the retelling 4 times of the same story?)
Paul shows up midway through Acts, so for the sake of ease, we'll say the later use of me (up to, but not including revelation) meant paul (which is pretty much accurate).
The first use of "me" in Romans is the 2883 use of the word "me" in the bible.
The last use before revelation is number 3046.
That means Paul used "me" 163 times.
And Paul was just an apostle, and one who never even met Jesus during Jesus' limited time on earth. Paul only having met Him on the road to tarsus.
It's funny... Paul also said...
Ephesians 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.