Who is St. Paul?

Here is how St. Paul introduced himself in the Holy Bible: ...I am a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in Cilicia...

Paulus is a resident of Rome and originally was one of the predominant enemies of the Christian faith. He goes to Jerusalem to receive his theological education. During this time he lives among Jewish people who torture believers of Christianity.

A miracle takes place as he sets out to punish Christians, on the road to Damascus. He has a vision of Jesus and converts to Christianity and then becomes a major advocate of the Christian religion.

In the early dispersion of Christianity, the Jews believed that the new messiah had finally arrived and Judaism would have an even wider circle of believers. Therefore, the new religion was seen as a belief for only Jewish people who considered themselves the selected, which curtailed the wider dispersion of Christianity.

That is the point where St. Paulus made the biggest contribution to the dispersion of this religion.

St. Paulus began propagating Christianity not among the Jews but among pagans, who he thought would be more open to a new faith. He also refused to exercise some religious practices which he found too rigorous, such as circumcision and the practices surrounding the Sabbath. Even though he gets into heated discussions with the Gentile Christians because of these differences, his propaganda bears fruit and the Christian congregation rapidly expands.

Particularly in the Council of Antioch (50 A.D.), St. Paulus's ideas are widely adopted and the Judaist interpretations of the new religion of the Gentile Christians have over time faded into history.

St. Paulus has reframed the Christian belief, and determined the rules of religious rituals and principles of faith. In order to propagate this new interpretation of Christianity, he embarks on missionary journeys starting from Cilicia to Cyprus and on to Anatolia, Thrace, Macedonia, Greece, and Italy.

During these journeys, he laid the foundation for the Christian Church, gave sermons, and expanded the Christian community. Also of importance are the epistles he wrote to the assemblies of major cities such as Ephesos and Korinthos, which helped shape the principles of faith of the Christian religion.

It is because of the epistles written by St. Paul that the Holy Bible is in its current state. Because of all this, St. Paul is maybe the most important characters of the Christian religion.

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