2.
The conversion of Paul is described as follows:
“And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: and he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest” (Acts ix, 3–5).
This was simply a hallucination; and upon this hallucination of the diseased mind of Paul the whole system of Christian theology is based.