Did the Apostle Paul ever put on a false front when he entered a pagan city?
No. The Apostle Paul never entered a pagan city with a veneer or false front. Scripture calls him 'unfeigned' in the King James, meaning sincere. He came with a heart full of revelation and knowledge in the power and working of the Holy Spirit.
Les explains that the word 'unfeigned' in 2 Corinthians 6:6 prompted the question of whether Paul ever put on a false front or came into a pagan city with a veneer. His answer is emphatically no. Paul came with a heart full of revelation and knowledge in the power and working of the Holy Spirit. Later in the passage, Paul also writes 'by the word of truth,' and Les defines perfect truth as Jesus Christ, contrasting with the world's questioning 'What is truth?'
By pureness, by knowledge, by longsuffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned,