Condemn Paul Influence On Religion

The Catholic church throughout history has pushed to the boundaries of society. Not just stopping at spreading the gospel around the world, but also educating, helping the less fortunate, and being a blessing to everyone. One person who helped inspire all of this was St. Paul.

Paul tells the Galatians that circumcision is no longer necessary and that anyone who continues to perform them is only doing so because

Paul was the most effective missionary of the early church. A missionary is a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country. The Damascus road experience was both a conversion and a call to advance the life of the new movement. Paul preached the gospel of Christ, beginning at Jerusalem and continuing his journey to Rome. He preached is local synagogues, city markets, outdoor arenas, private homes and public halls.

This quotation is referring to the horror and the personal aspect of war. Paul had just stabbed a printer. He talks about how “he gazes at me with a look of utter terror.”(218) He has just stabbed a man called his enemy, but when he realizes he is a man, Paul feels as he had done something wrong. This man who Paul had killed now seems so innocent. Paul had taken the life of a fellow man, someone who had a wife, a job as a printer, a famil. Paul states after the man is dead “Comrade, I did not want to kill you. If you jumped in her again, I would not do it, if you would be sensible too. But you were only an idea to me before, an abstration that lived in my mind and called forth its appropriate response. It was that abstraction I stabbed. But now, for the first time, I see you are a man like me. I thought of your hand-grenates, of your bayonet, of your rifle; now I see your wife and your face and our

Christianity has a vast influence on individuals, society and the way christians go about their everyday life. By providing ethics, morals and practices, christian are guided everyday through their lives. The impact and effect of Paul of Tarsus is represented through his contribution towards theology and sacred texts which has led him to being referred to as the founder of Christianity, and the most significant figure in Christianity after Jesus Christ.

During Paul's three mission trips, he encountered and encouraged many people. During his second missions trip, Paul met Timothy. Timothy grew up in Lystra and it is said that he was spoken very highly of and respected by the Christians in the area. His mother came from a Jewish background and it is believed that she was a Christian; however, his father was Greek and it is believed that he was not a believer. Because of the fact that his father was Greek, timothy was uncircumcised and when he decided to become a disciple of Paul, he had to be circumcised, not because it had to do with his salvation, but so that it would not hinder his ministry with the Jews. This took dedication and over time Timothy became one of Paul's most devoted followers.

Paul’s story is very unique. He is the ultimate picture of what God can do in a person’s life. Paul changes everything just after an encounter with God. He was the type of person that when he had a mission he was in it to win it. Paul also had a lot of influence, he had these leadership qualities that God designed him with.

1. There are two main issues that point out why multicultural education is important. One important issue that Banks and Grant make for the case of multicultural education is that in a population that’s as diverse in other races and ethnicities as America, it is necessary to bring up awareness of other cultures, experiences and perspectives because if the perspectives of racial and ethnic minorities are ignored by teachers when they teach students, students are going to be miseducated and prejudicial towards people of color (Grant 332). Another issue that Banks and Grant make for the case of multicultural education is the fact that multicultural education allows teachers to reach students of diverse racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic statuses.

The Council of Jerusalem in 50 C.E. had a central contribution to the progression of the early Church. The council was held in Jerusalem by major disciples, such as Paul and Peter. One focus was centered around the question of whether or not Gentile converts were required to become circumcised. Debates of this dilemma had been going on for years at this point, and the individuals who called the council knew they had to solve the problem. First, the council needed to determine if they were Jews or not.

How much society has changed over the centuries as we re-learn what to most was shared with good intention through word of mouth mostly or through the occasional weekend trip to town on Sunday most of which neglected sufficient research dedicated to knowing and understanding the Apostle to the gentiles, Paul! Reading Rediscovering Paul it is apparent that the Apostle was influenced by the society he was raised in.

Christianity over the course of history has a vast influence on individuals, society and the way believers conduct themselves. It provides morals, practices and ethics that every Christian attempts to live by. Throughout the many denominations in the Christian church, Paul of Tarsus had a significant influence on the faith. His contribution to the development and expression of Christianity is immense and can be seen to stem from his writing and missionary journeys which have implemented his ideas and interpretations onto the development of Christianity. After Jesus, Paul was arguably the most significant figure in Christianity as his teachings form a significant part of the New Testament. Like may other Pharisees of that time in history, Paul sought to suppress the early Christian movement. He accused early Christians of blaspheming against God and breaking Mosaic Law. However, Paul had a life-changing experience when he had a vision of Jesus, and he spent the remainder of his life as a missionary for the early church. Centuries after his ministry, his teachings still influence Christian theology.

The council of Jerusalem was called because there was an issue about the circumcision of non-Jews or Christian converts. People were denying the access of circumcision as an option to Christian converts because they were not the original worshipers of god and most people that were Christian worshipers had been circumcised and they thought that all Christians needed to be circumcised. They went to the church to see what would be allowed. Most people didn’t think that they should be able to have the option of circumcision including Paul and Barnabas. The people sought guidance from the apostles and elders of Jerusalem and sent Paul, Barnabas and Titus (who was from Greece) to Jerusalem to help make a decision. The council compromised on the circumcision of the Christian converts because Titus was uncircumcised. The council sent different sets of apostles to preach about the missionary of circumcised and uncircumcised

In doing this, Paul allowed any individual to become a Christian. Before the Council, there were a huge amount of Gentiles who wanted to become Christian, however, did not want to adopt the outdated, and quite controlling laws of Judaism. The Council of Jerusalem allowed Gentiles to do exactly that. As Paul explains “As many of you as were baptised into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is no longer Jew or Greek,…slave or free,…male or female…for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.” (Galatians 3:27-28), there is no need for Judaism. Paul’s actions influenced the evolution of Christianity by allowing a colossal influx of Gentiles to join, become prophets and spokespeople for Christianity. This would have increased the potential of new followers to join, due to a higher number of disciples. Furthermore, Paul transformed the utterance of Christianity by allowing other the Gentiles to understand christianity from a non Jewish point of view. Subsequently, this enabled “atheists” of the time to understand what Paul and the other Apostles were preaching, coming from fellow Gentiles

He changed over to Christianity on the premise of a dream of Jesus that he asserted to see while going out and about one day. In this vision, he was informed that his main goal was to get the message out about Christianity. Paul acknowledged from the start that the accomplishment of Christianity lay not with the Jews but rather with the

The first church conference was held in Jerusalem to decide the parts of the Mosaic Law Gentile converts had to obey to become members of the primarily Jewish Christian community. One of the differences between the Church in Jerusalem and Paul’s ideas is that the Jewish Christians believe that new converts cannot be saved unless they are circumcised. The Church sees this as a necessity to enter the Kingdom of God and also believe that foreigners must become Jews before they can become Christians. Paul, however, would argue against circumcision and he would ultimately prevail in the conference. The Church also believed that all converts had to observe certain provisions of the Torah, which included abstaining from sexual misconduct, obeying specified Mosaic dietary prohibitions, such as consuming blood or eating animals that had not been properly drained of blood, and not consuming any flesh from animals that had been sacrificed to alien gods. While the Book of Acts shows that Paul accepted these restrictions, he declares that he did not give in to any Torah demands.