How do many people today regard the writings of the Apostle Paul?
Many people today regard the writings of the Apostle Paul with almost ridicule, treating them lightly or dismissively. This mirrors attitudes in A.D. 60, because people do not change and their attitudes stay the same. Such treatment is not new; it reflects a continuing human tendency.
Les explains that even today many people almost ridicule the writings of the Apostle Paul. He points out that people today are no different from those in 60 A.D.; people do not change, and their attitudes stay the same. In the surrounding context, he recounts Paul's sufferings—persecution, beatings, shipwrecks, cold, nakedness, hunger—and the burden Paul carried for the unreached millions of the Roman Empire, which makes contemporary ridicule of his writings especially striking.